Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Exemplar

Exemplar , noun

[Latin exemplar, exemplum: compare French exemplaire. See Example, and compare Examper, Sampler.]

1.
A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
Such grand exemplar as make their own abilities the sole measure of what is fit or unfit. — South
2.
A copy of a book or writing. [Obsolete] — Udall

Exemplar , adjective

Exemplary. [Obsolete]
The exemplar piety of the father of a family. — Jer. Taylor