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/ɪgzˈɪbɪt/ Listen

verb

Exhibit v. t. (past & past part. exhibited; pres. part. exhibiting)

To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. "Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body."

(Law) To submit, as a document, to a court or officer, in course of proceedings; also, to present or offer officially or in legal form; to bring, as a charge. "He suffered his attorney-general to exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl."

(Med.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.

To exhibit a foundation or prize, to hold it forth or to tender it as a bounty to candidates.

To exhibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public. (Obs.)

noun

Exhibit n.

Any article, or collection of articles, displayed to view, as in an industrial exhibition; a display; as, this exhibit was marked A; the English exhibit.

(Law) A document produced and identified in court for future use as evidence.

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Etymology of 'Exhibit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exhibit" Quotes from Famous Books

... York habitually characterized him as "that hideous baboon at the other end of the avenue," and declared that "Barnum should buy and exhibit him as a ...

— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure

... at random, upon persons, who impose upon it the strange obligation of being perpetually in the dark respecting them. Under the protection of this obligation of officious silence, hitherto seconded by the slavery of the press, men without talents survive every revolution, exhibit in every antichamber their privileged incapacity, and braving public opinion, even that of their comrades, who are the first victims of a foolish and arrogant prejudice, which deceives them, shew themselves more eager to monopolise favours ...

— Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 • J. B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Correard

... $150,000. Mrs. Clayton's ability had early been manifest. Before her marriage she had taken prizes at the County Fair in crocheting and plum-jell. In after years no one pretended to compete with her annual exhibit of canned fruits, and the coveted prize to the County's best butter-maker was awarded her many ...

— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... does not appear to be of such a character. He seems to exhibit loss of memory. Imbecility, idiocy, and lunacy exhibit marked tendencies, and have been made the careful study of many eminent men, and it is even now one of the disorders least ...

— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay

... | | exemplified. Why the verse should be lengthened to express | | speed, will not easily be discovered. In the dactyls, used | | for that purpose by the ancients, two short syllables were | | pronounced with such rapidity, as to be equal only to one | | long; they, therefore, naturally exhibit the act of passing | | through a long space in a short time. But the alexandrine, | | by its pause in the midst, is a tardy and stately measure; | | and the word 'unbending,' one of the most sluggish and slow | | which our language affords, cannot much accelerate its ...

— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum

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