transitive. To exhibit, display, or manifest practically (a feeling, quality, capacity, etc.); hence, to exercise, practise, perform, do. Obsolete.

transitive. To put (a personal quality or faculty) into action or effect; to take (a particular quality or principle) as a guide for one's actions or…

transitive. To bring (a rule, a test, a principle, etc.) into contact with facts; to bring to bear practically; to put into practical operation.

To give practical effect to (a passion, sentiment, principle). Also, to bring (a weapon) into operation. Obsolete.

In or into use, practice, or performance. Often with verbs, as bring, come, have, and esp. put (frequently 1510–1630). Also rarely with into.

To carry on, carry out, perform. To perform or practise acts of (justice, cruelty, oppression, duplicity, etc.). Cf. 1b.

To put into effect, execute, to carry out in action (that which has formerly been devised or discussed); †to initiate, to begin to do (obsolete)…

transitive. With to (formerly †into, †unto). To put (a theory, principle, idea, or the like) into practice, action, etc. Now chiefly U.S. (mainly in…

†to make practice of (a) to practise, to carry out in action; (b) to make use of, to use. Obsolete.

transitive. = exert, v. 2. Obsolete.

To manifest in action, bring into active operation (force, a quality, etc.); to exercise, bring to bear. †to exert every nerve = to strain every…