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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Exercise \Ex"er*cise\, n. [F. exercice, L. exercitium from exercere exercitum to drive on keep busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive out of the inclosure; ex out + arcere to shut up inclose. See {Ark}.] 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice. exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature. --Jefferson. O we will walk this world, Yoked in all exercise of noble end --Tennyson. 2. Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual, or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness, grace, etc ``Desire of knightly exercise.'' --Spenser. An exercise of the eyes and memory. --Locke. 3. Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; as to take exercise on horseback. The wise for cure on exercise depend. --Dryden. 4. The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty. Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public exercise of their religion. --Addison. To draw him from his holy exercise. --Shak. 5. That which is done for the sake of exercising, practicing, training, or promoting skill, health, mental, improvement, moral discipline, etc.; that which is assigned or prescribed for such ends hence a disquisition; a lesson; a task; as military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition. The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. --Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and performed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. --Brydges. 6. That which gives practice; a trial; a test. Patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude. --Milton. {Exercise bone} (Med.), a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: exercise n 1: the activity of exerting you muscles in various was to keep fit "the doctor recommended regular exercise"; "he did some exercising"; "the physical exertion required by his work kept him fit" [syn: {exercising}, {physical exercise}, {physical exertion}, {workout}] 2: the act of using; "the steps were worn from years of use" [syn: {use}, {usage}, {utilization}, {utilisation}, {employment}] 3: systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" [syn: {practice}, {drill}, {practice session}] 4: a task performed or problem solved in order to develop skill or understanding; "you must work the examples at the end of each chapter in the textbook" [syn: {example}] 5: (usually plural) a ceremony that involves processions and speeches v 1: put to use "exert one's power or influence" [syn: {exert}] 2: carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions: "practice law" [syn: {practice}, {practise}, {carry out}, {do}] 3: give a work-out to: "Some parents exercise their infants" [syn: {work}] 4: do physical exercise; "She works out in the gym every day" [syn: {work out}] 5: learn by repetition [syn: {drill}, {practice}, {practise}]
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