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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Exhibit

Ex-hib'it, v. t.

verbtransitive

(egz-hib'it), v. t. [imp. & p. p. EXHIBITED; p. pr. & vb. n. EXHIBITING.] [Lat. exhibere, exhibitum, from ex, out of, from, and habere, to have or hold, as we say, to hold out or forth; Fr. exhiber, Sp. exhibir, It. esibire.]

Sense 1. To hold forth or present to view; to present for inspection, to bring forward for acceptance; to show; to display; as, to exhibit a document in court, or a picture in a gallery.

Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.

Sense 2. To present in a public or official manner.

To exhibit a charge of high treason against the earl. Clarendon.

Sense 3. (Med.) To administer as a remedy; as, to exhibit calomel.

To exhibit a foundation or prize, to hold it forth as a bounty to candidates. He was a special friend to the university. . . . exhibiting to the wants of certain scholars. Wood. — To exhibit an essay, to declaim or otherwise present it in public.

Ex-hĭb'it, n.

noun

n. [Lat. exhibitus, p. p. of exhibere. See supra.]

  1. Any paper produced or presented to a court, or to auditors, referees, or arbitrators, as a voucher, or in proof of facts; a voucher or document produced.
  2. (Law.) A document or writing produced and proved in a court, by admission or by witnesses.