Exercise, vb. 1) trans. to perform, to practise: “no longer e. upon a valiant race thy injuries,” Cymb. V, 4, 82.
2) intr. to practise gymnastics: “in the common show-place, where they e.” Ant. III, 6, 12. As for Tp. I, 2, 328, see Subst. def. Tp. I, 2, 328
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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