I. A moving, agitating, setting in motion: “per aëris exercitationem (aqua) percolata tempestatibus liquescendo pervenit ad terram,” Vitr. 8, 2, 1.—
II. Exercise, practice: “corpora nostra motu atque exercitatione recalescunt,” Cic. N. D. 2, 10, 26: “ut exercitatione ludoque campestri tunicati uteremur,” id. Cael. 5, 11; cf.: “juventutis in gymnasiis,” id. Rep. 4, 4: “esse incredibili virtute atque exercitatione in armis,” Caes. B. G. 1, 39; cf.: “superiorum pugnarum,” id. ib. 3, 19, 3: usu forensi atque exercitatione tiro, Cic. Div. ap. Caecil. 15, 47; cf.: “juris civilis,” id. de Or. 1, 57, 243: “ususque dicendi,” id. Cael. 22, 54: “dicendi,” id. Brut. 97, 331; id. Off. 1, 1, 1; Quint. 2, 12, 11; 2, 17, 12: “linguae,” Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 94; cf.: vir egregia exercitatione in dialecticis, id. Fin. 3, 12, 41; “and, rhetoricae,” id. N. D. 2, 67, 168: “magnum opus est, egetque exercitatione non parva,” id. Lael. 5, 17: “hic exercitationem virtutis perdidit,” id. Mil. 13, 35; “Crotoniensibus nulla virtutis exercitatio fuit,” Just. 20, 4, 1: “artes exercitationesque virtutum,” Cic. de Sen. 3, 9: “ingenii,” id. ib. 11, 38: “corporalis,” Vulg. 1 Tim. 4, 8 et saep.