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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

... annoyance about Casimir's incivility, would long ago have been forgotten. As it is, they prey upon him like a disease. He loses flesh, his appetite is variable and, on the whole, impaired. I keep him on the strictest regimen, I exhibit the most ...

— The Merry Men - and Other Tales and Fables • Robert Louis Stevenson

... up behind and cut a button off the tunic. We learnt that the lad was twenty-one years of age, and that he had been called up in December 1914. Before assisting in the conquest of France he was employed in a paper factory. He tried to exhibit gloom, but it was impossible for him quite to conceal his satisfaction in the fact that for him the fighting was over. The wretched boy had had just about enough of world- dominion, and he was ready to let the Hohenzollerns and Junkers ...

— Over There • Arnold Bennett

... least unite with you in admiration of a field so rich in romantic interest, and indulge the hope that I may one day pluck from it fruit instead of blossoms. In Spain, I came upon your track, and I should hesitate to exhibit my own gleanings where you have harvested, were it not for the belief that the rapid sketches I have given will but enhance, by the contrast, the ...

— The Lands of the Saracen - Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain • Bayard Taylor

... admission ticket to varnishing day at the spring exhibit of the American Society of Painters," said Jack easily. And without giving Mrs. De Peyster an instant in which to pursue the matter further, he awkwardly pushed her favorite chair toward the fire to a place beside his own. "Come sit ...

— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott

... linen than its companion, and it was ornamented with a small ruffle. A cap, coquettishly decorated with ribbons, hung above it, and a pair of long gloves, such as were rarely used in those days by persons of the laboring classes, were pinned ostentatiously to it, as if with an intention to exhibit them there, if they could not be shown on ...

— The Deerslayer • James Fenimore Cooper

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