EXHIBITION (exhibere to exhibit, furnish, maintain, &c.), a showing or presenting to view; a display. In law, delivery of writings in proof of facts; a bill of discovery.
In our old writers it is also used for an allowance of meat, drink, a pension or salary; and it is now applied to a benefaction settled for the maintenance of scholars in English universities, not depending on the foundation. In this sense the term is analogous to the Scottish bursary. Among physicians, exhibition is a standard and convenient term to express the administering of a medicine.