Word Meanings - EXERCISABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That may be exercised, used, or exerted.

EXERT
out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
EXERCISE
exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
EXERTION
The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort; as, an exertion of strength or power; an exertion of the limbs or of the mind; it is an exertion
EXERTIVE
Having power or a tendency to exert; using exertion.
EXERCISER
One who exercises.
EXERTMENT
Exertion.
EXERCISABLE
That may be exercised, used, or exerted.
EXERCISIBLE
Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.
OVEREXERT
To exert too much.
OVEREXERTION
Excessive exertion.
SETTING-UP EXERCISE
Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.
DISEXERCISE
To deprive of exercise; to leave untrained. By disexercising and blunting our abilities. Milton.
INEXERTION
Want of exertion; want of effort; defect of action; indolence; laziness.