† 1. The action of achieving or accomplishing. Const. of. Also, a performance; and collect. what has been accomplished. Obs.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. xi. The Commentaries of Julius Cesar whiche he made of his exploiture in Fraunce and Brytayne. Ibid., III. x. In his counsayles, affaires, and exploytures, he omitted no tyme.
c. 1534. trans. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden), I. 18. Paulinus finished not there his exploitures with such facilitie.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark ix. 67. Whose seruice thou canst not lacke for thexploiture of such affaires.
2. In mod. use: The action of exploiting or developing.
1883. P. D. Hay, in Harper’s Mag., Sept., 554/2. A plot … was never so old but that it rewarded some further exploiture by Marion.
