Obs. Also 4 ensamplarie. [app. a doublet of ENSAMPLER; Gower’s use suggests that he regarded it as f. ENSAMPLE + -ERY.] Examples collectively; example in the abstract.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 292. A tale … Which is of olde ensamplarie. Ibid., III. 48. [History] is of great ensemplary Agein the vice of sorcery.
