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exercitation

exercitation noun: the exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.

Noun

exercitation (countable and uncountable, plural exercitations)

  1. (obsolete, rare) The exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
    • To Crates and Dicæarchus it seemed that there was none at all;[…] To Plato, that it was a substance moving of it selfe: To Thales, a Nature without rest; To Asclepiades, an exercitation of the senses[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • This was at first to have taken place alternately at each other's houses, but we soon discovered that my friend's resolution was inadequate to severing him from his couch at the early hour fixed for this exercitation.1901, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)

Examples of exercitation in a sentence

  • Mens sana in corpore sano, which being translated means, mens—or perhaps I should say, men—should incorporate bodily exercise with mental exercitation.1890, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, October 25:
  • Come up, sir, and show me your exercitation.1855, Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho!:

Forms of exercitation

pluralexercitations

Origin of exercitation

From Latin exercitatio, from exercitare, intensive, from exercere (“to exercise”).

Questions about exercitation

What does exercitation mean?
Exercitation means the exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
How do you use exercitation in a sentence?
Mens sana in corpore sano, which being translated means, mens—or perhaps I should say, men—should incorporate bodily exercise with mental exercitation.
What part of speech is exercitation?
Exercitation is a noun.
What is the plural of exercitation?
The plural of exercitation is exercitations.

Words near exercitation in the dictionary

  1. exercising
  2. exercising the ferret
  3. exercisings
  4. exercitant
  5. exercitants
  6. exercitation
  7. exercitations
  8. exercitive
  9. exercitives
  10. exercycle
  11. exercycles

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