单词 | exercitation |
释义 | exercitationn. 1. The exercising, putting in operation, or exerting (of faculties, powers, etc.); an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > [noun] > exercising or exerting (a faculty or power) exercisec1340 exercitationc1374 enhaunting1382 exercising1508 exercition1525 execution1581 forthputting1640 exertinga1676 exertiona1676 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. vi. 140 Þei sholden conferme þe vertues of corage by þe vsage and exercitacioun of pacience. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 314 Asclepiades [held the soul to be] an excersitation of the senses. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild i. iii, in Misc. III. 16 He was..never detected in such furtive Compositions, nor indeed in any other Exercitations of his great Talents. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 109 They have an ambitious propensity for intellectual exercitation. 1880 J. B. Crozier Relig. Future ii. 123 Emerson's religion requires no..exercitations of the imagination to vivify it. a. The practising (of a trade), habitual performance (of actions). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > [noun] workingOE hauntinga1325 exercise1393 occupation1432 exercite1485 practicec1487 function1576 exercitation1579 extent1594 gestion1599 prosecution1605 carrying1711 1579 Burgh Rec. Aberd. in J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. (1876) ii. xiv. 480 The exercetation of all crafts. 1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 180 You vse to Whet and sharpen your vnderstanding in the exercitation of high deedes and gests. b. An accustomed employment, a duty belonging to one's office. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] wikec1000 workOE wikenc1175 misterc1225 curec1300 officec1330 ward1338 duty1375 parta1382 businessc1400 commissionc1450 besoigne1474 roomth?1504 function1533 exercitation1737 pidgin1807 job1841 biz1862 1737 Common Sense (1738) I. 20 Not to mention what a fatal Hinderance a prominent Abdomen would prove to his royal Exercitations in the Seraglio. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 19 His health..is still pretty well; nor is he in the least unfit..for any kind of royal exercitation. 3. a. The training (of a person or his faculties) by practice; practice (of an art, etc.) for the sake of improvement; an instance or a mode of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > by going through beforehand practising?a1425 rehearse1463 exercitation1475 practice1504 rehearsal1579 woodshedding1927 1475 Bk. Noblesse 21 The second was exercitacion and usage in dedis of armes. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie Ep. Ded. sig. Aiv From industrious exercitations, many vtillities..do flowe and source. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vii. 14 Nothing in life can be rightly done without exercitation. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 38. 244 Let us for our own Exercitation..turn to the Description of it. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 27 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1232 Read..ingenious systems,..but consider them only as exercitations for the mind. 1831 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 44 99 The practice had become so much an exercitation of subtlety, on the part of its professors. 1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) ix. 207 The writing of verses is a good rhetorical exercitation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > discipline exercitationa1398 exercising1508 sadhana1909 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. i. 1110 Somme [bestes] beþ ymade for excercitacioun of man, for man schulde knowe his owne infirmite and þe might of God. And þerfore beeþ ymade flees and luys. c1425 tr. Thomas à Kempis Consol. ii. ix Whan spiritual exercitation is ȝoven of god, receiue it with gret þankinges. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > for health exercitation1382 exercisec1386 exercition1525 apotherapy1653 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Tim. iv. 8 Bodili excercitacioun, or traueling, or abstinence, to litil thing is profytable. a1500 Prose Legends in Anglia (1885) 8 154 Exercitacyone of body she sette litil by. ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Cij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Ye ought to haue cure of all the body, in strengthyng it with dyuers exercytacyons. 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning iv. ii. 191 Walking..[is good] against the crudities of the stomack; and for other diseases other exercitations. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 898 To the Conservation or keeping of Bees, many things are required, to wit, orderly, diet..air, exercitation. 5. Devotional exercise; an act of public or private worship. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [noun] > performance of with or in (great, etc.) solemnityc1290 solemnity1390 solemnization1447 observancea1450 solennizationc1450 solemnation1470 celebration1483 superstition1513 ministration1535 celebrating1547 solemnizing1565 ministering1566 solemnize1590 solemniation1631 officiating1640 exercise1656 exercitation1660 officiation1804 altar service1831 ritual1865 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 31 He had morning exercitations at his own house. 1673 W. Penn Christian-Quaker x, in Wks. (1726) I. 558 Spiritual Exercitation. 1792 G. Wakefield Enquiry Publ. Worship 14 Diurnal exercitations for spiritual improvement. 1828 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 1 131 Werner appears likewise to have assisted at certain ‘Spiritual Exercitations’. 6. An exercise or display of skill, esp. literary or oratorical; a written or spoken disquisition, essay, discourse. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a discourse or lecture spellc888 predicationa1325 lessonc1330 collation1417 sermocination1514 discourse1533 lecture1536 descant1567 peroration1607 homilya1616 sermona1616 exercitation1632 transcursion1641 exhortatory1656 by-discourse1660 screed1748 purlicue1825 rhesis1840 talk1859 lecturette1867 chalk talk1881 pi-jaw1896 1632 J. Weemes (title) Divine Exercitations, containing divers Questions and Solutions for the right understanding of the Scriptures. 1689 Dialogue Timothy & Titus 39 (heading) A Friendly and Cordial Exercitation to my Brethren in the Ministry. 1699 R. Burthogge Of Soul of World in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) II. 240 Scaliger, in his 323d Exercitation against Cardan. 1736 D. Neal Hist. Puritans III. 162 He..published a Latin exercitation upon the same subject. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 17 Indulging..a flowing..diction in his prose exercitations. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 352 A very wild campanological exercitation. 1877 M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church & Relig. 22 The superb exercitations of Bossuet or the reasoning and rhetoric of Pascal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1374 |
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