Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Esercitá-re, v. a.
1. to exercise, train up, drill, form, fashion, instruct; 2. to practise, follow.— la mercatura or il traffico, to exercise or follow some business. — la terra, to till, cultivate the earth. — la medicina, to practise physic;3. to try, prove, make trial or experiment of,v. r. 1. to exercise one's self; 2. to apply or addict one's self to a thing; 3. to take exercise;s. m. Esercitá-tóre, f. Esercitá-tríce; adj. Esercitá-nte.