Part 4033

<i>Spenser.</i>

<blockquote>An <b>exercise</b> of the eyes and memory. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Bodily exertion for the sake of keeping the organs and functions in a healthy state; hygienic activity; <as>as, to take <ex>exercise</ex> ob horseback</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The wise for cure on <b>exercise</b> depend. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The performance of an office, a ceremony, or a religious duty.</def>

<blockquote>Lewis refused even those of the church of England . . . the public <b>exercise</b> of their religion. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To draw him from his holy <b>exercise</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>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 ebbs; hence, a disquisition; a lesson; a task; <as>as, military or naval <ex>exercises</ex>; musical <ex>exercises</ex>; an <ex>exercise</ex> in composition.</as></def>

<blockquote>The clumsy <b>exercises</b> of the European tourney. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public <b>exercises</b> in Cambridge, in 1565. <i>Brydges.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>That which gives practice; a trial; a test.</def>

<blockquote>Patience is more oft the <b>exercise</b> <b>Of saints</b>, <b>the trial of their fortitude</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Exercise bone</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a deposit of bony matter in the soft tissues, produced by pressure or exertion.</cd></cs>

<h1>Exercise</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"er*cise</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Exercised</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Exercising</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Herein do I <b>Exercise</b> myself, to have always a conscience void of offence. <i>Acts xxiv. 16.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>exercise</ex> arms; to <ex>exercise</ex> one's self in music; to <ex>exercise</ex> troops.</as></def>

<blockquote>About him <b>exercised</b> heroic games The unarmed youth. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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>as, <ex>exercised</ex> with pain</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must <b>exercise</b> us without hope of end. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; <as>as, to <ex>exercise</ex> authority; to <ex>exercise</ex> an office.</as></def>

<blockquote>I am the Lord which <b>exercise</b> loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. <i>Jer. ix. 24.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The people of the land have used oppression and <b>exercised</b> robbery. <i>Ezek. xxii. 29.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exercise</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"er*cise</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To exercise one's self, as under military training; to drill; to take exercise; to use action or exertion; to practice gymnastics; <as>as, to <ex>exercise</ex> for health or amusement</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I wear my trusty sword, When I do <b>exercise</b>. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Exerciser</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex"er*ci`ser</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who exercises.</def>