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(
1390-1412; MS: s.xv1
)
il s’en va par de la mon bien amé pannetier [...] pur veoir le pais et y exerciter sa personne
Lett & Pet 252
2to engage in, run:
(
1406
)
en cas q’ascun homme [...] use ou excercize ascuns escoles
Rot Parl1 iii 584
v.intrans.
to practise, engage (in):
(
1267; MS: c.1300
)
excercice si est usage [...] En quey dunkes excerciter Deit em pur merite aver
Lum LaisANTS 7381
♦to strive, work hard to:
(
1267; MS: c.1300
)(devils are sent among men so that the latter) deussent excerciter Encuntre lur gyns rester E veintre lur temptaciun
Lum LaisANTS 1271
v.refl.
to take exercise:
(
s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm
)
avant ton manger tu te deys un poy excerciter
Secranon 10.81
♦to practise, engage in:
(
1267; MS: c.1300
)
ky ke veut la joie (=of Heaven) aver En biens se covient excerciter
Lum LaisANTS 7374
(
s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15
)
[…] une devocion a Deu plus amer e se memes en bones overes excerciter
Ancren2 10.5
exerciter (1267)