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Imitative :: Imitative (a.) Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art..

Tabulata :: Tabulata (n. pl.) An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples.

Ensample :: Ensample (n.) An example; a pattern or model for imitation.

Trilogy :: Trilogy (n.) A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's Henry VI. is an example..

Illustrate :: Illustrate (v. t.) To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples..

Brachioganoidei :: Brachioganoidei (n. pl.) An order of ganoid fishes of which the bichir of Africa is a living example. See Crossopterygii.

Paraleipsis :: Paraleipsis (n.) A pretended or apparent omission; a figure by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice..

Agaric :: Agaric (n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example..

Labiate :: Labiate (a.) Belonging to a natural order of plants (Labiatae), of which the mint, sage, and catnip are examples. They are mostly aromatic herbs..

Exampler :: Exampler (n.) A pattern; an exemplar.

Epagoge :: Epagoge (n.) The adducing of particular examples so as to lead to a universal conclusion; the argument by induction.

Polarity :: Polarity (n.) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc..

Transitive :: Transitive (a.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book..

Follow :: Follow (v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.

Example :: Example (n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.

Thecophora :: Thecophora (n. pl.) A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecae and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

Unisilicate :: Unisilicate (n.) A salt of orthosilicic acid, H4SiO4; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, Mg2SiO4 or 2MgO.SiO2..

Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..

Monument :: Monument (n.) A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record..

Moralize :: Moralize (v. t.) To furnish with moral lessons, teachings, or examples; to lend a moral to..

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