Exercised

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exercise \Ex"er*cise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exercised}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Exercising}.]
     1. To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion;
        to give employment to; to put in action habitually or
        constantly; to school or train; to exert repeatedly; to
        busy.


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              Herein do I Exercise myself, to have always a
              conscience void of offence.           --Acts xxiv.
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     2. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to
        practice in order to develop; hence, also, to improve by
        practice; to discipline, and to use or to for the purpose
        of training; as, to exercise arms; to exercise one's self
        in music; to exercise troops.
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              About him exercised heroic games
              The unarmed youth.                    --Milton.
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     3. To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax,
        especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to
        vex; to worry or make anxious; to affect; to discipline;
        as, exercised with pain.
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              Where pain of unextinguishable fire
              Must exercise us without hope of end. --Milton.
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     4. To put in practice; to carry out in action; to perform the
        duties of; to use; to employ; to practice; as, to exercise
        authority; to exercise an office.
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              I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness,
              judgment, and righteousness in the earth. --Jer. ix.
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              The people of the land have used oppression and
              exercised robbery.                    --Ezek. xxii.
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