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单词 exercitation
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exercitationn.

/ɛɡˌzəːsɪˈteɪʃən/
Forms: Middle English exercitacion, exercitacioun, 1500s exercetation, exercytacyon, Middle English– exercitation.
Etymology: < Latin exercitātiōn-em, noun of action < exercitāre : see exercitant n.
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.
2.
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.
b. Spiritual discipline. Obsolete.
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.
4. Exercise of the body; a mode of exercise.
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.
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