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▪ I. † exercite, n.1 Obs.
Also 5 excercyte, -syte, exeercyte.
[a. OF. exercite, ad. L. exercitus army (u stem), action of exercising, hence concr., f. exercēre: see exerce v.]
An army, host.
1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 21 In that tyme were baptysed..thre thousand men of hys excersyte. 1490― Eneydos xxii. 83 He sawe the felawes of the Emmendes and alle their excercyte. c1490Blanchardyn (1890) 9 He arryued wyth alle his Exeercyte nyghe to the oost of Subyon. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Herald §72 (1877) 81 Wyllyam Conquerour..passed, with his exercite of the noble Englyshemen, into Fraunce.
▪ II. † eˈxercite, n.2 Obs.
Forms: 5 excersite, -yte, 5–6 exercite, -citie, -cyte.
[a. OF. exercite, of obscure formation; perh. f. exerciter (see exercite v.); possibly ad. L. exercitus (see prec.).]
In various senses of exercise n. Drilling (of soldiers); practice (of virtue, etc.); occupation (of time); discharge (of the duties of an office); also, exercite of = practices preparatory to.
1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 20 It is tyme..to forsake the false goddes..whyche..do no thynge but excersite of dampnacyon. 1489― Faytes of A. i. vii. 15 The excercyte of their offyce. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iii. iii. 148 Excellente in contemplacyon, & in the exercyte or usynge of lyfe spyrytuall. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) R iij a, The kepyng of hyr selfe [Lucrece] close in her house, the exercytie of her tyme.
▪ III. † exercite, ppl. a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. exercitus, pa. pple. of exercēre: see exerce.]
In exercite act = ‘exercised act’; see exercised ppl. a.
1711tr. Werenfelsius' Disc. Logomachys 101 Then [follow] Acts..divided, signate, exercite.
▪ IV. † exercite, v. Obs.
Also 5 excercyte.
[a. OF. exerciter to exercise, ad. L. exercitāre: see exercitant.]
trans. To exercise, practise; to discipline, drill; to wield, bring into play (a weapon).
1475Bk. Noblesse 27 Good men of armes well lerned and exercited. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 427/4 He excercytyng and ocupyeng hym in thys holy operacion or werke. c1500Melusine 224 In many other appertyse of armes they exercyted them self. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 B iij b, The boke of medycamentes, wherin it behoueth to be exercyted who soeuer wyll take any fruyte of these present comentaries. 1556J. O[lde] tr. Walther's Antichrist 161 But the material sweord must be exercited for the churche, and the spiritual sweorde of the churche. |
