All 6 Uses of
illustrate
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- "Good Lor! get him in it, then," said Mose, "and den he'd begin, 'Come saints—and sinners, hear me tell,' and den down he'd go,"—and Mose imitated precisely the nasal tones of the old man, tumbling on the floor, to illustrate the supposed catastrophe.
Chpt 1.4illustrate = help make clear
- Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and pecularities.
Chpt 1.11 *illustration = example
- He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, disposed them under his chair, sat down, and looked rather apprehensively up at the worthy whose heels illustrated the end of the mantel-piece, who was spitting from right to left, with a courage and energy rather alarming to gentlemen of weak nerves and particular habits.
Chpt 1.11illustrated = helped make clear
- The little old gentleman stared with both eyes at this illustration of the case; but, though not much of a reasoner, he had the sense in which some logicians on this particular subject do not excel,—that of saying nothing, where nothing could be said.
Chpt 1.11illustration = something that helps clarify or demonstrate
- As they stood there now by Legree, they seemed an apt illustration of the fact that brutal men are lower even than animals.
Chpt 2.32illustration = demonstration
- It was one of those collections of stories of bloody murders, ghostly legends, and supernatural visitations, which, coarsely got up and illustrated, have a strange fascination for one who once begins to read them.†
Chpt 2.39
Definition:
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(illustrate as in: as illustrated by this example) to help make clear -- typically by example