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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An example that is cited to prove or invalidate a contention or illustrate a point. synonym: example.
  • noun. A case or an occurrence.
  • noun. A step in a process or series of events.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A suggestion or request.
  • noun. Urgent solicitation or entreaty.
  • transitive verb. To offer as an example; cite.
  • transitive verb. To demonstrate or show by an example; exemplify.
  • idiom. (for instance) As an example; for example.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cite as an instance; adduce in illustration or confirmation; mention as an example.
  • To furnish an instance or example of; exemplify; manifest.
  • To take or receive example or examples; give or find illustration: followed by in.
  • noun. Presence; present time.
  • noun. A happening or occurring; occurrence; occasion: as, it was correct in the first instance; a court of first instance (that is, of primary jurisdiction).
  • noun. A case occurring; a case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an example; originally, a case offered to disprove a universal assertion: as, this has happened in three instances.
  • noun. Hence Evidence; proof; token.
  • noun. An impelling motive; influence; cause.
  • noun. The process of a suit.
  • noun. In Scots law, that which may be insisted on at one diet or course of probation.
  • noun. The act or state of being instant or urgent; insistence; solicitation; urgency.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
  • noun. That which is instant or urgent; motive.
  • noun. Occasion; order of occurrence.
  • noun. That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example.
  • noun. A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
  • noun. those which proceed at the solicitation of some party.
  • noun. the court by which a case is first tried.
  • noun. by way of example or illustration; for example.
  • noun. the Court of Admiralty acting within its ordinary jurisdiction, as distinguished from its action as a prize court.
  • intransitive verb. To give an example.
  • transitive verb. To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
  • noun. A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
  • noun. An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
  • verb. To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
  • verb. To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. clarify by giving an example of
  • noun. an occurrence of something
  • noun. an item of information that is typical of a class or group
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