exerceō uī, itus, ēre ex + arceo, to drive, keep busy, keep at work, oversee, work, agitate: taures, V.: te exercebo hodie, keep agoing, T.: (Maeandros) Incertas exercet aquas, O.: vomere collīs, V.: rura bubus, H.: humum in messem, V.: agros, Ta.: telas (aranea), O.: arva exercenda, Ta.: undas Exercet Auster, H.: diem, i. e. employ in labor, V.

—Fig., to engage busily, occupy, employ, exercise, train, discipline: quid te exercuit Pammenes? copias, Cs.: exercendae memoriae gratiā: in bello alqm: in gramineis membra palaestris, V.: vocem et virīs in hoc: Litibus linguas, O.: exerceri in venando: se in his dictionibus: se genere venationis, Cs.: cui (Iovi) se exercebit, in whose honor: ceteris in campo exercentibus: exercendi consuetudo, of exercising ourselves: pueros exercendi causā producere, L.

—To practise, follow, exercise, employ oneself about, make use of, ply: medicinae exercendae causā: artem, H.: palaestras, V.: arma, V.: vanos in aera morsūs, O.: acies pueriles, mock fights, Iu.

— To follow up, follow out, prosecute, carry into effect, practise, administer: iudicium: latam legem, L.: imperia, V.: cum illo inimicitias, S.: odium in prole, O.: facilitatem animi: avaritiam in socios, L.: acerrume victoriam nobilitatis in plebem, S.: foede victoriam in captis, L.: odium, O.: pacem et hymenaeos, solemnize, V.

— To disturb, disquiet, vex, plague: me vehementer: te exercent numinis irae, V.: animos hominum, S.: simultates et exercuerunt eum et ipse exercuit eas, L.: toto exerceor anno, O.: curis exercita corpora, O.