ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.
Exercised act: trans. med.L. actus exercitus, a scholastic term used in various senses opposed to actus signatus; in Duns Scotus it means specific being viewed in itself, not as an object of predication. See EXERCED, EXERCISE a.
1552. Huloet, Exercised, Exercitatus.
1590. C. S., Right Relig., 19. He [Peter] … disclaimeth and disswadeth such exercised lordship ouer the Cleargie.
1597. J. Payne, Royal Exch., 37. We must be all exercised souldiers.
1607–12. Bacon, Ess. Fortune (Arb.), 379. The exercised fortune maketh the Able man.
1628. T. Spencer, Logick, 53. Therfore the end hath an actiue, and an exercised act, in the producing of the effect.
1631. T. May, trans. Barclay’s Mirr. Mindes, II. 33. The strongest and most exercised head in Contemplation.
1690. Penn, Rise & Progr. Quakers (1834), 63. We were an exercised people.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, an. 1756. We … venerate in Johnson one of the most exercised minds that our holy religion hath ever formed.
1841. Myers, Cath. Th., III. § 40. 105. Questions … decided … by the exercised faculties of each spiritual mind.
