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2 definitions found 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: exercising n : 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: {exercise}, {physical exercise}, {physical exertion}, {workout}]
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