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Where pain of unextrnguHTiable fire 
Muft exercife us, without hope of end, Milton. 
To praftife ; to perform : 
Age’s chief arts, and arms, are to grow wife ; 
Virtue to know, and, known, to exercife. Denham. 
To exert ; to put in ufe.—The princes of the Gentiles 
exercife dominion over them, and they that are great exer- 
cfc authority upon them. Malt.xx. —To praftife or ufe 
in order to habitual fkill : 
To you fuch fcabb’d harfli fruit is given, as raw 
Young foldiers as their exereijings gnaw. Dry den. 
Mean while I’ll draw up my Numidian troop 
Within the fquare, to exercife their arms. Addifon. 
To EX'ERCISE, v.“n. To ufe exercife ; to labour for 
health or for amufement.-—A due courfe of exercife in- 
creafes the circulation of the blood, attenuates and divides 
the fluids, and promotes a regular perfpiration, as well 
as an equable fecretion of all the humours ; for it accele¬ 
rates the animal fpirits, and facilitates their diftribution 
into all the fibres of the body, ftrengtbens the parts, creates 
an appetite, and helps digeftion. Whende it arifes, that 
thofe who accudom themfelves to proper exercife are ge¬ 
nerally robuft, and leldom fubjeft to difeafes. It really 
appears, that for w'ant of proper exercife and temper¬ 
ance, the human fpecies are the moll infirm, the mod 
fickly, and difeafed, of the whole animal creation ! But 
this is by no means furprifing, when we confider the indo¬ 
lence and luxury in which men live, and the long cata¬ 
logue of vices to which they are prone. On the other 
hand, brute creatures having to fearch far and wide for 
their prey, are kept in continual exercife, which is the 
grand preferver of the animal machine ; and being not un- 
frequently kept long without food, (harpens the appetite, 
and gives tone and vigour to every velTel of the body; whilft 
thofe animals which are kept for (how, or domefticated in 
houfes, not only lofe the vivacity and advantages of their 
nature, but become equally indolent and difeafed with the 
mod pampered of the human race. 
EX'ERCISER, f. He that direfts or ufes exercife. 
EXERCITA'TION, /. [ exereitatio , Lat.] Exercife.— 
It were fonie extenuation of the curfe, if in Judore vultus 
tui were confinable unto corporeal exercitations. Brown. — 
Practice ; ufe.—By frequent exercitations we form them 
within us. Felton. 
EXERG A'SI A, f. [from e|, out of, and Egyaatcc, Gr. 
a work.] The aft of polilhing ; a figure in rhetoric, in 
which there is a kind of fine and laboured enumeration 
of particulars relative to the fame fubjeft. 
EXER'GUE, f. [ e |, from, and tgyov, Gr. the work.] 
The plain circular fpace between the work and the edge 
of a medal, on which the infeription or motto is ufually 
placed. 
To EXE'RT, v. a. [ excro , Lat.] To ufe with an ef¬ 
fort ; to ufe with ardourand vehemence.—When the fer- 
vice of Britain requires your courage and conduft, you 
may exert .'hem both. Dryden. —To put forth to perform. 
— When the will has exerted an aft of command upon any 
faculty of the foul, or member of the body, it has done 
all that the whole man, as a moral agent, can do for the 
aftual exercife or employment of fuch a faculty or mem¬ 
ber. South. —To enforce ; to pu(h to an effort. With the 
reciprocal pronoun : 
Strong virtue, like drong nature, druggies dill ; 
Exerts itfelf, and then throws off the ill. Dryden. 
To bring out : 
The feveral parts lay hidden in the piece, 
Th’ occalion but exerted that or this. Dryden. 
To emit; to pudi out ; to put forth : 
The orchard loves to wave 
With winter winds, before the germs exert 
Their feeble heads. 
Vot,._ VII. No. 4J2, 
Philips. 
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EXER'TION, f. The rifct of exerting ; effort. 
EXE'SION,/! \_exefus, Lat.] The adtof eating through. 
—Theophradus denieth the cxefion or forcing of vipers 
through the belly of the dam. Brown. 
EXESTUA'TION,y. [exajluo, Lat.] The date of boil¬ 
ing ; tumultuous heat; effervefcence ; ebullition.—Salt¬ 
petre is in operation a cold body : phyficians and chymids 
give it in fevers, to allay the inward exefiliations of the 
blood and humours. Boyle. 
EX'ETER, the capital of Devonfhire, and a county of 
itfelf, fituated on the river Ex, ten miles north of the 
Britifh channel : wed longitude 3 deg. 40 min. north lati¬ 
tude 5 deg. 44 min. The ancient name of this city was 
IJex, then Ifca Dumnoniorum. The prefent name is a con- 
traftion of Excejler, i. e. a city upon the Ex. It is a large, 
populous, and wealthy, city, with gates, walls, and fu- 
burbs : the circumference of the whole is about three 
miles. It is the fee of a bidiop, fulfragan of the arch- 
bifhop of Canterbury ; transferred hither from Crediton, 
by Edward the Confeffor. It had formerly fo many con¬ 
vents, that it was called Monk-town, till king Atheldau 
changed its name to Exeter, about the year 940 ; at whicli 
time he fortified the city with circular walls, battlements,, 
towers, and turrets; encircling the whole, except the 
wedern fide, with a deep moat. That the Romans had a 
dation here, is highly probable, among other proofs, 
from their coins, which have been dug up at divers places; 
in particular, a gold one of Nero, at Exeter ; one of Theo- 
dofius, near Barndaple ; feveral filver ones of Severus, 
and other emperors ; but efpecially from a great quantity 
of them dug up about feventy years dnee at Exeter, 
within the Clofe, together with the urn in which they 
were buried. Some of thefe were filver ; but the greatelt 
part of them were a mixture of tin and copper. They; 
had the impreflion of Gordianus, Philippus, and otherem- 
perors. 
Beddes chapels and five large meeting-houfes, there 
are now in Exeter and its luburbs nineteen churches. St. 
Peter’s,.the cathedral, is a magnificent pile ; though no¬ 
thing remains of the ancient fabric, except that which is 
called “ Our Lady’s Chapel.” This church may be faid 
to have been near four hundred years in completing. Its 
foundation is faid to have been fird laid by Atheldau, in 
932. Leofric carried on the edifice. William Warlewed, 
however, is generally (uppofedto have laid the foundation 
of the prefent choir in 1112. Bidiop Chicheder, indalled 
1128, is fuppofed to have finifliftl the choir. John 4 the 
Precentor made additions, which Henry Mardiall, his fuc- 
ced’or, finifhed. Peter Qjaivil, in 1284, began the nave 
or tranfept of the church. In about 1340, billiop Gran- 
difon began the two la!t arches in the welt end, and finifh¬ 
ed it fo far as to cover the whole roof in 1369. Bifhop 
Brentingham and others made additions ; and Peter Cour¬ 
tenay, then bifliop of Exeter, afterwards of Wincheder, 
completed the north tower in 1485, and very remarkable 
it is to fee the uniformity with which it was carried on ; 
for no eye can deteft the lead incongruity in the parts, fo 
much it is like the workmanfliip of one and the fame ar- 
chiteft. In the Accc-unt of Exeter cathedral, publidied 
under the infpeftion of the fociety of antiquaries, in the 
year 1800, the honour ot giving to the church its prefent 
grandeur and uniformity, is very judly attributed to 
Quivil—“ Whatever was the date of the church at the 
accedionof bidiop Qujvil, the uniformity of the drufture, 
as it at prefent dands, leems to prove beyond a doubt that 
the whole, as the uniform tradition of the different wru- 
ters has delivered down to us, was the fruit of one great 
defign ; and its lingular elegance does as much honour 
to the tade, as its noble lize to the munificence of the 
founder. Godwin’s alfertion, that Qmivil founded the 
tranfept, which Littleton fo feverely cenlures, isundoubt- 
edly true ; for he joined the two towers by arches on each 
lide of the nave, and cut away the interior walls of each 
tower, turning great arches in them, as appears by the 
roll quoted by Littleton j beddes which it appears, from 
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