exhibitn.
/ᵻɡˈzɪbɪt/, /ɛɡˈzɪbɪt/, U.S. /ɪɡˈzɪbət/, /ɛɡˈzɪbət/ 1. Law.
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a. (See quot. 1672.)
b. Any document (or, more recently, any material object) produced in court and referred to and identified in written evidence.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > object produced as
exhibit1626
exhibit A1906
1626 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 40 The exhibite..shewed unto him..is the true..bill of ladeinge.
1636 Divine Trag. 43 Suppressing the Gentlemans exhibits and defence.
1662 Act 14 Chas. II c. 14 All the Processes, Exhibites, Writings..and Orders were had, taken, made and done in the said Court of Admiralty.
1667 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. ii. viii. 73 The office of the Register is to attend the court, to receive all libels, or bills, allegations and exhibits of witnesses.
1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Ddvb Exhibit, Exhibitum, When a Deed, Acquittance, or other writing is in a Chancery-Suit exhibited to be proved by Witnesse, and the Examiner writes on the back that it was shewed to such a one at the time of his Examination; this is there called an Exhibit.
1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 46/2 Nagree paper fixed and marked exhibit M.
1800 Ann. Reg. 1798 (Otridge ed.) State-papers 288/2 Eight pages of ciphered exhibits.
1888 Chitty 5 Rep. Pat., etc. Cases 673 I have also an exhibit of goods which the Applicants manufacture or sell.
c. exhibit A: the first document or object produced in court as evidence; hence transferred and figurative, an object or person considered as a piece of evidence, esp. the most important evidence.
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > object produced as
exhibit1626
exhibit A1906
1902 J. M. Lely Wharton's Law Lex. (ed. 10) 303 Exhibit, a document..referred to in, but not annexed to, an affidavit... Usually the deponent merely refers to it in the affidavit as ‘the exhibit hereto annexed marked A’, or as the case may be.]
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands iv. 49 John was..so limp that the policeman had to hold him up, like exhibit A.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August xv. 325 That this white man..was going..into remote negro churches..to..preach to them humility before all skins lighter than theirs, preaching the superiority of the white race, himself his own exhibit A.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iv. 47 The button—let us call it Exhibit A—was found by me.
1963 K. Eble F. Scott Fitzgerald x. 158 His short stories will be the supporting evidence—The Great Gatsby is Exhibit A—of his lasting claim to attention.
1970 J. Porter Rather Common Sort of Crime xiv. 163 Pimp..tossed a crumpled looking paper bag over to the Hon. Con. ‘Exhibit A,’ said Jack the John.
2. A detailed and formal statement of particulars (as debts, liabilities, etc.); originally one intended for production in court; hence gen.
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society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > official record > specific
perambulationc1455
fine rolla1603
exhibit1702
perambulatory1773
birth certificate1821
death certificate1850
protocol1880
coronation rolls1883
birth paper1888
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > evidence > [noun] > documentary evidence > types of
green waxa1350
estreatc1440
streatc1440
right1478
affidavit1515
constat1570
exhibit1702
davy1764
1702 London Gaz. No. 3778/4 They are desired..to bring or send such their Exhibits of Book Debts, Bonds, etc.
1864 D. A. Wells Our Burden & Strength 6 Having thus presented an exhibit of our present and prospective national liabilities.
3. Ecclesiastical in plural. The documents (letters of orders, institution and induction, etc.) which a beneficed or licensed clergyman may be required to produce at the first visitation after his admission. Hence, the fees payable on presenting these documents.
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society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [noun] > documents relating to
titlec1400
exhibit1630
collation1646
society > faith > worship > benefice > advowson > [noun] > fees payable for
exhibit1767
1630 W. Bedell Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. clii. 422 By Fees, he..seeks to take..for Exhibits at Visitations.
1767 R. Burn Eccl. Law (1824) IV. 19 None but the bishop, or [his representative] hath right de jure communi to require these exhibits of the clergy.
1863 W. Blyth Hist. Notices Fincham 72 At the Bishop's primary visitation in 1858 the synodals were 5s. and the exhibits 13s. 4d.
4. Something exhibited or presented to view.† a. gen. A spectacle, sight. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > sight or spectacle
sightc950
showingOE
spectacle1434
inspectionc1460
show1536
object1588
eyemark1595
theatre1606
theorya1626
exhibit1676
exhibition1786
something to see (or look at)1808
eyeful1858
spectacular1890
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 449 In the study of a poor Fly, there would be such a confluence of so many wonderful and difficult Exhibits in it.
b. One of the objects composing an ‘exhibition’.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun] > exhibit
show1587
showpiece1802
flower-show1845
rose show1852
exhibit1862
1862 Leader (Melbourne) 5 July Exhibits for the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Show.
1876 Family Herald 2 Dec. 79/2 An exhibit..in the Peruvian section..attracted an unusual share of attention.
1884 Graphic 16 Aug. 166/2 The horses were a grand show of 390 exhibits.
c. The collection of articles sent by any one person, firm, country, etc. to an ‘exhibition’.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun] > exhibit > collection of by one exhibitor
exhibit1871
1871 Daily News 7 Dec. There is not much the matter..with his exhibit [of cattle].
1881 Harper's Mag. June 50 The Portuguese exhibit at the last Universal Exposition at Paris.
1887 F. E. Chadwick in Scribner's Mag. 1 517/1 The only French exhibit was that of the Bureau Veritas.
5. A showing, producing in evidence, display.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > [noun] > a show (of something)
sight1390
presentationa1616
exhibit1654
show1695
re-exhibition1758
layout1869
shop window1894
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 95 The Play was to be presented to some few friends before the publick exhibit.
1864 Fessenden in Times 24 Dec. The power to compel an exhibit of books of account.
1886 B. W. Richardson in Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Sept. 6/2 There was no exhibit in these workers of any deficiency of muscular perception or skill.
Draft additions 1993
d. = exhibition n. 6. North American.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun]
display1661
exhibition1761
show shop1772
travelling exhibition1800
show1831
exposition1851
showing1885
exhibit1894
étalage1900
show-up1931
installation1969
1894 Official Guide Calif. Midwinter Exposition v. 45 The following are the groups into which the exhibit in the Agricultural building is divided.
1915 A. Pollitzer Let. 26 July in G. O'Keeffe & A. Pollitzer Lovingly, Georgia (1990) 7 I have fixed up one of the rooms in our big old barn—as a kind of studio—& I took them [sc. the drawings] up—thumb-tacked them on the walls & had a real exhibit.
1928 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. x.19/1 While the exhibit closed yesterday, it will be continued this week at the Washington School.
1944 S. Bellow Dangling Man 90 John Pearl writes of an exhibit of his pictures at a women's club in New York.
1974 G. Paley Enormous Changes at Last Minute 104 They had gone to see the missile exhibit on Fourteenth Street.
1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. d3/2 Douglas E. Brown: Swell Times, paintings at the New Art Gallery of Toronto... This is a streetwise exhibit that's all over the place in terms of subjects.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† exhibitadj.
Obsolete.
= exhibited, past participle of exhibit v.
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1529 T. Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. i. 104 II. 8 Thys kyndnes exibite from the Kyngs Hyghnes shall prolong my lyff.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxxiiv Worshyp exhibyte & done to the sayntes of god.
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces ii. sig. O.1 Who is he..that woll not prefer in his dyligence exhybet the fauour of a ryche man.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Pref. We haue exhibet to ȝou this present Catechisme.
1639 King Charles I Declar. Lawful Sports 4 Some whereof were produced and exhibit by our Commissioner.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
exhibitv.
/ᵻɡˈzɪbɪt/, /ɛɡˈzɪbɪt/, U.S. /ɪɡˈzɪbət/, /ɛɡˈzɪbət/ I. To offer, furnish, administer.† 1. transitive. To offer, present (sacrifice, etc.); to administer (an oath). Obsolete.† 2. † b. intransitive. To provide maintenance; to give an ‘exhibition’; to minister (to a person's wants). Const. to, unto. Obsolete. Rarely transitive: To give an exhibition to (a student).
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the mind > possession > giving > offer or action of offering > offer [verb (transitive)]
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bidOE
make?a1160
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presentc1515
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to hold forth1560
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delatea1575
to give forth1584
tender1587
oppose1598
to hold out1611
shore1787
society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > sacrifice [verb (transitive)]
offereOE
teemc1275
sacrea1325
sacrify1390
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presentc1425
exhibit1490
immolate1548
immole1610
shrine?1611
victim1671
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oblate1872
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (1890) v. 21 His felaushyppe chosen by hym for to make and exhibete the sayd sacrefyce.
1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 805/2 We..exhibite our bodies a liuely host.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xii. 22 To him [sc. God] we can not exhibit ouermuch praise.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. xii. 54 The worship which naturally men exhibite to Powers invisible.
1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 37 That the said Commissioners should have power to exhibit an Oath.
a. To grant, provide, furnish; const. to, unto; hence, to defray (expense). Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)]
forgivec900
giveOE
besetc1230
deala1250
i-yevec1275
to give (requite, etc.) into one's bosomc1386
yarka1400
wevec1400
yatec1400
administera1425
bequeathc1440
employa1492
exhibit1548
communicate1553
endue1587
cast1612
hand1650
to lay on1942
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcvv Frendes..will not..remember a great gratuitie and benefite in time of necessitie, to them shewed and exhibited.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1133/2 To D. Royston..he [sc. Humfrey Mummuth] exhibited .xl. or .l. pounds.
1577 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians (new ed.) f. 178 The blessing promised to Abraham and exhibited by Christ.
1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. vi. xxi. 108 Whose necessary expences and charges Ambrose exhibited.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lx. 135 Wee defraude them of such..outward helps as wee should exhibit.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 32 We will exhibite you a market.
1654 Triana in Fuller Cause & Cure (1867) 162 He kept Feliciano..as a gentle almsman, exhibiting diet and some slender accommodations unto him.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide for the wants or needs of
frameOE
providec1425
sorrow1481
stake1547
exhibit1601
sorry1601
consult1682
organize1892
1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 312 [The] Deane of York.. sent him to Oxeford, and so long as he liued..exhibited vnto him there.
a1695 Wood in Webster's Compl. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1864) He was a special friend to the university..exhibiting to the wants of certain scholars.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xlviii. 520 Well disposed people..used to exhibit to poor students.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation iv. 107 The sum paid out of endowments to students exhibited.
3. transitive (Medicine) To administer (a remedy, etc.).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > [verb (transitive)] > administer (treatment)
administer?a1425
apply?a1425
ministera1475
adhibit1543
administrate1595
exhibit1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 251 They were wont to exhibit it [Scammony] for a purgation.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 168 If the meat desired be of a very naughty and ill property, then it is not to be exhibited.
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 233 As if they would exhibit a medicine to the Head.
1725 N. Robinson New Theory of Physick 295 Let a Vomit be exhibited in the first Place.
1821 T. Sandwith Observ. Med. & Surg. 16 A tea-spoonful of the antimonial wine was exhibited every hour.
1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 166 The patient should fast for four or five hours before chloroform is exhibited.
II. To submit or expose to view; to show, display.
4. absolute.1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 343 His application for an arbiter involved an admission that he was bound to restore or exhibit.† b. To give up (oneself to justice). Obsolete. rare.
a. To hold out, or submit (a document) for inspection; esp. to produce, lodge, put in (a document) in a court of law, to append as an ‘exhibit’ to written evidence. Const. to; also †into (a court).
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society > communication > manifestation > offering for inspection or consideration > offer for inspection or consideration [verb (transitive)] > a document
exhibea1492
exhibit1529
1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII c. 5 So that the said testament be exhibited to him..in wrytyng.
c1538 T. Starkey Let. in England (1878) i. p. lxxv I haue not fayned to exibyte to your grace this rude commentary.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. i. 155 Accept this Scrowle..Which..We doe exhibite to your Maiestie. View more context for this quotation
1629 Vse of Law 87 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light They are to exhibite the Will into the Byshops Court.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 44 One of the persons to whom the manuscripts were exhibited was Archbishop Sancroft.
1885 Law Rep.: Queen's Bench Div. 14 205 The records..exhibited to the affidavits filed in the cause.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > absence of resistance > offer no resistance [verb (reflexive)] > give in
ayielda1000
yield1297
bandona1400
submita1450
renounce?1531
render1604
exhibit1628
1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 64 Pausanias..came forth and exhibited himself to justice.
5. † b. To promulgate, publish (a decree or order).
a. To submit for consideration; to present, prefer (a petition, an accusation, etc.). Cf. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > suggest [verb (transitive)] > for consideration
puta1350
purposea1382
propone1402
motion1505
exhibit1529
propound?1531
prefer1539
raise1566
to put forward1569
broach1579
start1579
offer1583
propose1614
first1628
to put it to a person1664
moot1685
suppose1771
pose1862
to put up1901
1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII c. 16 §11 Our true and faithful Subjects..exhibited unto us a lamentable Bill of Complaint.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 26 Why Ile Exhibit a Bill in the Parliament for the putting downe of men. View more context for this quotation
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 66 May easily impetrate at Gods hands any supplication you shall exhibite.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 20 He..exhibited another charge of High Treason against the Duke.
1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation iii. 75 A discourse exhibited to the Queen's Council.
1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 99 The several Charges exhibited by the Complainants against Mr. Ruston were frivolous and malicious.
1805 E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench 5 353 Where two libels are exhibited against two inhabitants of a parish for tithes.
1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) iv. 79 Our part is merely to exhibit against the system the charge of delusion or enthusiasm.
1883 Rules Supreme Court xxxi. §7 Any interrogatories may be set aside on the ground that they have been exhibited unreasonably.
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society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > promulgate
publisha1325
promulge1488
provulge1506
promulgate1530
provulgate1535
to set forth1567
emit1672
exhibit1693
1693 tr. J. Le Clerc Mem. Count Teckely iii. 2 Orders should be exhibited for maintaining Officers and Souldiers.
6. To set forth (in words or figures); to detail.
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the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)]
sayOE
devisec1300
readc1300
to make (a) showing ofc1330
counterfeitc1369
expressc1386
scrievec1390
descrya1400
scrya1400
drawa1413
representc1425
describec1450
report1460
qualify?1465
exhibit1534
perscribe1538
to set out1545
deline1566
delineate1566
decipher1567
denotate1599
lineate16..
denote1612
givea1616
inform?1615
to shape out1633
speaka1637
display1726
to hit off1737
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. D.4 In exhybetynge these offyces and dutyes, we muste, [etc.].
1618 J. Hales Let. 7 Dec. 36 in Golden Remains (1659) Leave to exhibit their minde in writing.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) viii. 109 Mr. Samuel Fortry..exhibits the particulars.
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ii. 89 Which [entries] I chuse to exhibit in the words of the original.
1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 381 The following Table exhibits the result of these experiments.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. iii. §1 To exhibit an enumeration of all kinds of things which are capable of being made predicates.
7. † c. intransitive for reflexive. Obsolete.
a. To manifest to the senses, esp. to the sight; to present (a material object) to view.
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society > communication > manifestation > [verb (transitive)]
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atewOE
sutelec1000
openOE
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report1548
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to set forth1551
demonstrate1553
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to give show of1567
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exhibit1573
apparent1577
display?1578
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vision1594
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proclaim1597
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discloud1600
remonstrate1601
resent1602
to bring out1608
palesate1613
pronounce1615
to speak out1623
elicit1641
confess1646
bear1657
breathe1667
outplay1702
to throw out1741
evolve1744
announce1781
develop1806
exfoliate1808
evince1829
exposit1882
pack1925
society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > show to the sight [verb (transitive)]
to set beforea1000
openOE
showlOE
to put forth?c1225
kithe1297
to make (a) showing ofc1330
presenta1398
representa1398
to lay forthc1420
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discovera1450
advisea1500
to set to (the) show?1510
to stall out1547
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patent1889
showcase1939
1573 (title) The Whole Works of W. Tyndall, etc...now in print here exhibited to the Church.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xxiv. 6 Annot.) 138/1 Where God hath promised to exhibite himself to those that worthily approach him.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 318 Out of this opening they exhibit their real head and eyes.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 128 The coasts..sometimes exhibit extensive beaches.
1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 9 Water is..made up of two substances, neither of which can be exhibited separately, except in the gaseous form.
1837 C. R. Goring & A. Pritchard Micrographia 187 For a solar intended to exhibit large objects.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iv. 33 It may be that the lake simply exhibits the colour of pure water.
b. To present to mental view.
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1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. ii. sig. Bbb.iii/1 We haue of this, verie many examples exhibited vnto vs.
1607 C. Lever Crucifixe sig. F2 Exhibite (Lord) my pardon in thy prayer.
1780 S. Johnson Let. 18 Apr. (1992) III. 240 She and her Husband exhibited two very different appearances of human Nature.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xli. 506 The general exhibited a memorable lesson of firmness and severity.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 532 Oxydated muriatic gas..exhibits..the surest means of checking contagion.
1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) iii. 84 In both, the phenomenon is still exhibited.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > appear or become visible > make an appearance
atewOE
splaya1400
compearc1470
to come ona1635
exhibit1656
to figure in1812
show your shapes1828
to show one's neb (also nose, etc.)1841
surface1961
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Exhibite,..to shew it self.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 312 It is in the nature of the mind to assent to whatever appearances that exhibits [1848, etc.: exhibit] when all other evidence that might correct them is removed out of her reach.
a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 29 My own opinion is, that the scenery felt that it was dullish, and was ashamed to ‘exhibit’ to Iglesias.
8.
a. To represent by a figure, drawing, etc.: said also of the drawing itself.
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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > represent graphically [verb (transitive)]
figurec1380
draw1542
tract1611
exhibit1799
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > draw [verb (transitive)] > (of drawing) represent
exhibit1799
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 210 Embellished only with 34 plates, but they exhibit mostly new, rare, and valuable plants.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 279 One of these branches is exhibited in the figure.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics vi. 63 The following method..of exhibiting caustic curves I have found exceedingly convenient.
b. To present a delineation or an embodiment of in words or in action.
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society > communication > expression > [verb (transitive)]
abroachc1400
figure1475
express1549
unload1561
vent1602
speaka1616
extrinsicate1645
to set out1684
ventilate1823
exhibit1849
register1901
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 404 In the power of exhibiting character by means of dialogue he was deficient.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 12 [They] are to exhibit in their lives that virtue which is the basis of the state.
9. To manifest by signs, indicate the existence of, display.
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society > communication > indication > [verb (transitive)]
tokenc888
sayOE
tellc1175
note?c1225
signifyc1275
notifyc1390
signc1390
ossc1400
testify1445
point1477
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indike?1541
demonstrate1558
to give show of1567
argue1585
portend1590
speak1594
denotate1597
denote1597
evidence1610
instance1616
bespeak1629
resent1638
indict1653
notificate1653
indicate1706
exhibit1799
to body forth1821
signalize1825
to speak for ——1832
index1862
signal1866
1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 251 Countenance exhibits more distress.
1832 H. Martineau Ireland 113 More exhibited their uncomplaining poverty in their looks and dress.
1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 76 Gregory himself is the chief actor, and exhibits..a union of prudence..and unshrinking principle.
1854 D. Brewster More Worlds ix. 147 The power, and wisdom, and goodness of the Creator, are exhibited to us every day and every hour.
10. absolute.1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xviii. 192 [Actors] carrying their scenes..to the next village, where they were to exhibit.1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Dundee A theatre, where a party of the Edinburgh comedians exhibit for several months during the Edinburgh vacation.1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 493 With as much..regularity, as if they had been exhibiting on a parade.
a. To show publicly for the purpose of amusement or instruction, or in a competition; to make a show of; rarely, to perform in public.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > exhibit [verb (transitive)]
show?c1225
exhibit1766
lionize1830
stage1850
1826 T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 6) I. 53 A living bird exhibited in a show.
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 31 This celebrated musician, whose laurel also is exhibited.
1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 201 Mr. Eyles exhibited the best six.
1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 19 One of them..happening to exhibit a solo on the violin.
1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 105 After supper Voltaire would exhibit a magic lantern.
1878 W. S. Jevons Polit. Econ. 57 Except to exhibit as curiosities.
b. U.S. To present or declaim (a speech or an essay) in public. Also absol.
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1817 Laws Yale Coll. iv. §11 If any student..shall exhibit anything not allowed by the Faculty.
1817 Laws Yale Coll. viii. §28 No Student who shall receive any appointment to exhibit before the class..shall give any treat of wine.
c. intransitive for reflexive.
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1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters vi. 152 He there exhibits in rampant folly.
Derivatives
eˈxhibited adj.
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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > [adjective] > shown
shown1671
exhibited1727
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Exhibited,..presented or offered.
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Exhibited, brought forth to view, proposed, displayed.
1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 258 The ‘Moonlight at Millbank’..was his first exhibited oil-picture.
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