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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exercise \Ex"er*cise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exercised}; p. pr &
vb n. {Exercising}.]
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.
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