To offer or present to view; present for inspection; place on show: as, to exhibit, paintings; to exhibit an invention; to exhibit documents in court.To display; manifest conspicuously; bring to light; furnish or constitute: as, to exhibit an example of bravery or generosity.To present for consideration; bring forward publicly or officially; make a presentation of.In medicine, to administer, as a specified drug.In English universities, to hold forth (a foundation or prize) to be competed for by candidates.To present or declaim (a speech or an essay) in public.To make an exhibition; open a show; present something to public view: as, to exhibit at the Academy.In universities, to offer or present an exhibition.To present an essay in public; speak in public at an exhibition or college commencement.n. Anything or any collection of things exhibited publicly: as, the Japanese exhibit in the Paris Exposition.n. A showing; specifically, a written recital or report showing the state of any matter at a particular date, as of the estate of a bankrupt, etc.n. In law, a paper attached to a contract, pleading, affidavit, or other principal instrument, identified in and referred to by it; a document offered in evidence in an action, and marked to identify it or authenticate it for future reference.n. Synonyms See exhibition.