OZDIC

exercise

UK /ˈɛk.sə.saɪz/ US /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪz/
noun 5verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.

The teacher told us that the next exercise is to write an essay.

Where noyse of armes, or vew of martiall guize / Might not reuiue desire of knightly exercize.

2

Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.

Swimming is good exercise.

I like to do my exercises every morning before breakfast.

3

A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.

The law guarantees us the free exercise of our rights.

December 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, first annual message exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature

4

The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.

I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.

Lewis[…] refused even those of the church of England[…]the public exercise of their religion.

5

That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

But patience is more oft the exerciſe / Of Saints, the trial of thir fortitude,

verb

1

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.

to exercise troops or horses;  to exercise one's brain with a puzzle

2

To perform physical activity for health or training.

I exercise at the gym every day.

3

To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.

exercise caution

The tenant exercised his option to renew the tenancy.

4

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.

exercised with pain

Where pain of unextinguiſhable fire / Muſt exerciſe us without hope of end

5

To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

And herein doe I exercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

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