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il·lus·tra·tive  (-lstr-tv, l-strtv)
adj.
Acting or serving as an illustration.
il·lustra·tive·ly adv.
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Adj.1.illustrative - clarifying by use of examples
exemplifying
informatory, informative - providing or conveying information
2.illustrative - serving to demonstrate
demonstrative
instructive, informative - serving to instruct or enlighten or inform
illustrative
adjective 1. representative, typical, descriptive, explanatory, interpretive, expository, explicatory, illustrational
adjective 2. pictorial, graphic, diagrammatic, delineative
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It occurred to me that a work of this kind might comprise a variety of those curious details, so interesting to me, illustrative of the fur trade; of its remote and adventurous enterprises, and of the various people, and tribes, and castes, and characters, civilized and savage, affected by its operations.
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is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of
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He gives you the official teaching on the whole subject, is precise as to rules, mentions illustrative events, quotes law cases where verdicts turned upon a point of stowage.
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