1. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to; to put in action habitually
or constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to busy.
Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.
Acts xxiv. 16. 2. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve
by practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise
one's self in music; to exercise troops.
About him exercised heroic games
The unarmed youth.
Milton. 3. To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to
vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline; as, exercised with pain.
Where pain of unextinguishable fire
Must exercise us without hope of end.
Milton. 4. To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to
exercise authority; to exercise an office.
I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
Jer. ix. 24.
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.
Ezek. xxii. 29. Exercise
(Ex"er*cise), v. i. To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to
use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement.
I wear my trusty sword,
When I do exercise.
Cowper. Exerciser
(Ex"er*ci`ser) n. One who exercises.
Exercisible
(Ex"er*ci`si*ble) a. Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a
magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.
Exercitation
(Ex*er`ci*ta"tion) n. [L. exercitatio, fr. exercitare, intense., fr. exercere to exercise: Cf. f.
exercitation.] exercise; practice; use. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Exergue
(Ex*ergue") n. [F., fr. Gr. out + work; lit., out work, i. e., accessory work. See Work.] (Numis.)
The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains
the date, place, engraver's name, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.
Exert
(Ex*ert") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exerting.] [L. exertus, exsertus, p. p. of
exerere, exserere, to thrust out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. Exsert.]
1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. [Obs.]
So from the seas exerts his radiant head
The star by whom the lights of heaven are led.
Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into
active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind
or the voice.
3. To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform.
When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body.
South. To exert one's self, to use efforts or endeavors; to strive; to make an attempt.
