All 4 Uses of
specimen
in
An Enemy of the People
- I cannot understand how it is that I have only now acquired a clear conception of what these gentry are, when I had almost daily before my eyes in this town such an excellent specimen of them—my brother Peter—slow-witted and hide-bound in prejudice—.†
Act 4specimen = an example regarded as typical of its class
- He no longer dares to think independently, or to pursue his ideas to their logical conclusion; so, he turns the whole theory upside down and proclaims in the "People's Messenger" that it is the barn-door hens and street curs that are the finest specimens in the menagerie.†
Act 4specimens = examples regarded as typical of their class
- Bookcases and cabinets containing specimens, line the walls.†
Act 5 *
- Bring me some specimens of them.†
Act 5
Definition:
an example thought to represent its type; or a bit of tissue, blood, or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes