What is "exerts"

Usage examples of "exerts".

Life of Johnson is further a masterpiece of art in that it exerts the vigorous energy of a masterpiece, an abundance of what, for want of a better word, we call personality.

Upon women of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the consciousness of which would have turned any head less constant than his own, and with their fulsome adoration he was pleased none the less for perceiving its real value.

If you answer in the affirmative, I conclude, that, since justice here exerts itself, it is satisfied.