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Pattern

King James Dictionary

PAT'TERN, n.

1. An original or model proposed for imitation the archetype an exemplar that which is to be copies or imitated, either in things or in actions as the pattern of a machine a pattern of patience. Christ was the most perfect pattern of rectitude,patience and submission ever exhibited on earth.
2. A specimen a sample a part showing the figure or quality of the whole as a pattern of silk cloth.
3. An instance an example.
4. Any thing cut of formed into the shape of something to be made after it.

To pattern after, to imitate to follow.

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