Both Uses of
specimen
in
David Copperfield
- …perhaps it was a little indecent that the principal registrar of all, whose duty it was to find the public, constantly resorting to this place, all needful accommodation, should be an enormous sinecurist in virtue of that post (and might be, besides, a clergyman, a pluralist, the holder of a staff in a cathedral, and what not), — while the public was put to the inconvenience of which we had a specimen every afternoon when the office was busy, and which we knew to be quite monstrous.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'A specimen of the thanks one gets,' cried Mrs. Markleham, in tears, 'for taking care of one's family!†
Chpt 43-45 *
Definition:
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(specimen) an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes