Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of exercising.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Exercise; practice; use.
- noun An exercise; an act; a performance; particularly, a mental act or performance; a play of the mind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare exercise; practice; use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
exercise orexertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
OpenOffice.org 3.1 Has Smoother Drawing And Usability Tweaks | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
OpenOffice.org 3.1 Has Smoother Drawing And Usability Tweaks | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Short Child etc. galenred 2008
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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Asclepiades the physician, that it is the concurrent exercitation of the senses.
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By way of geographical exercitation, we had all drawn our several plans, showing, after Arab statement, the lay of Shaghab and Shuwák, the two ruins which we were about to visit.
The Land of Midian 2003
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His eye was averted and fastened downward upon his manuscript, and his discourse, or exercitation, or whatever it might be, was delivered in a monotonous, regular cadence, probably relieved from time to time by some quaint blunder, the result of indistinct penmanship, or dim religious light.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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_Inexperience_, the lack of mental exercitation, hence _Ignorance_, is the _Negative_
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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For a young man whose political views were so maturely thought out, debate was no mere exercitation; his education was fast passing into apprenticeship for public life; and in February, 1865, his father, Sir
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907
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