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‖ exempli gratia, phr.|ɛgˈzɛmplɪ ˈgreɪʃɪə|
Also exempli causa.
[L.]
For the sake of example; for instance. Freq. abbreviated to e.g. (see E III), occas. ex. gr.
1569Abp. Parker Let. 1 July (1853) 352 Exempli causa, I urge the Injunction upon all ministers. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes 102 The intrinsecall radicall moysture must be supplied, recruited, and replenished with the extrinsecall liquids, that is, exempli gratia, in the morning with a sphericall Tost in a pot of Ale of good capacity. 1765Gibbon Let. 31 Oct. in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 437 Exempli gratiâ, your letter is dated Vienna, October 12th, 1765; it made its appearance at Beriton,..October 29th. 1798Coleridge Lett. (1884) 61 There are some ludicrous blunders—exemp. gratiâ—this erudite philosopher mistakes Moses's autograph for the publication of the law. 1802Ibid. 85 In English now, exem. causâ, we might say, [etc.]. 1868G. V. Cox Recoll. Oxford iv. 45 His subtle and ingenious narration of Aesop's Fable of the Dog and the Wolf, and his running comments on it, Ex. gr. ‘Just see how fat and sleek I am,’ said the Dog. 1933Nature 7 Oct. 533/1 The concept and the word are freely scattered through Wheatstone's Bakerian lecture of 1843, where we find, ex gr., ‘in two circuits..when the same resistance is introduced, the strength of the two currents may be weakened’. |