KJV Dictionary - pattern
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PATTERN
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.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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