exercitation

American  

[ig-zur-si-tey-shuhn] / ɪgˌzɜr sɪˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

1. exercise or exertion, as of the faculties or powers of the body or mind.

   an exercitation of the imagination.

2. practice or training.

   exercitations in logical thinking.

3. the performance of a religious observance; an act of worship.

4. a disquisition or discourse performed as a display of skill.

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exercitation British  

/ ɪɡˌzɜːsɪˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. a rare word for exercise

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Etymology

Origin of exercitation

1325–75; Middle English exercitacioun < Latin exercitātiōn- (stem of exercitātiō ) exercise, practice, equivalent to exercitāt ( us ) (past participle of exercitāre, to exercise, frequentative of exercēre; exercise ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

"The individual who arrives late at the locality of his daily exercitation will eventually become a candidate for the high and responsible position of public suspension."

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by Cooke, John Esten

It is not a mere exercitation of the intellect, it is an endeavor to get nearer God—to assert his eternal Providence, and vindicate his ways to men.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

The chief use of this first mode of discussion is to sharpen the wit, for which purpose it is the best exercitation.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Nevertheless, the writing of verses is a good rhetorical exercitation, as teaching us what to shun most carefully in prose.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

I need hardly draw the moral of this, our somewhat fancical exercitation and exegesis.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest