Crossword clues for exercising
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exercise \Ex"er*cise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exercised; p. pr. & vb. n. Exercising.]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. The act by which something is exercised. vb. (present participle of exercise English)
WordNet
n. the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways 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]
Usage examples of "exercising".
Whatever praise the boldness of the Sclavonians may deserve, it is sullied by the wanton and deliberate cruelty which they are accused of exercising on their prisoners.
His timid ingratitude was published to his subjects, in an edict which prohibited the senators from exercising any military employment, and even from approaching the camps of the legions.
Brutus, that he found himself incapable of exercising a power incompatible with public freedom.
But as these hardy veterans, who had been educated in the ignorance or contempt of the laws, were incapable of exercising any civil offices, the powers of the human mind were contracted by the irreconcilable separation of talents as well as of professions.
The bishops had disgraced themselves, by exercising the functions of accusers in a criminal prosecution.
Barbarians and outlaws, who were desirous of exercising the profession of robbery, under the more honorable names of war and conquest.
Instead of exercising the rights of conquest, we have been contented to impose such tributes as are requisite for your own preservation.
Federal Government for the privilege of exercising powers of sovereignty guaranteed them by the Constitution.
This proviso was held not to prevent the Federal Government from exercising the power of eminent domain within the District.
State from exercising such powers as are vested in it for the promotion of the common weal, or are necessary for the general good of the public, though contracts previously entered into between individuals may thereby be affected.
Thus in exercising both the powers which he claimed as Commander in Chief and those which Congress conferred upon him to meet the emergency, Mr.
To apply it to the case of France, if there had been a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, between the United States and that country, the unqualified acknowledgment of the new government would have put the United States in a condition to become an associate in the war with France, and would have laid the legislature under an obligation, if required, and there was otherwise no valid excuse, of exercising its power of declaring war.
Madison denied that it involved cognizance of the question, whether those exercising the government of the accrediting State have the right along with the possession.
Exercise of the right of suffrage is a conclusive test of citizenship in a State, and the acquisition of the right to vote without exercising it is sufficient to establish citizenship.
American Federal System with its dual system of courts, exercising concurrent jurisdiction in a number of classes of cases, presents numerous possibilities of inter-court conflicts and interference.