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Under the power of enchantment; possessed or exercised by enchanters; as, an enchanted castle.

ss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace. All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him. Burke.

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

agistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by the people of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.

ecessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

A study; an exercise; a piece for practice of some special point of technical execution.

to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.

f a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.

mercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.

That may be exercised, used, or exerted.

Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced; as, the authority of a magistrate is exercisible within his jurisdiction.

exercise; practice; use. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To put forth, as the result or exercise of effort; to bring to bear; to do or perform. When we will has exerted an act of command on any faculty of the soul or member of the body. South. To exert one's self, to use efforts or endeavors; to strive; to make an attempt.

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 for him to move, to-day.

To exercise; to train by practice. The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. Harte. To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the diatribes of Christianity; to yield to the power of religions truth.

m an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.…

act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.

Having relation to the grant or exercise faculty, or authority, privilege, license, or the like hence, optional; as, facultative enactments, or those which convey a faculty, or permission; the facultative referendum of Switzerland is one that is optional with the people and is necessary only when demanded by petition;…

e faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind which is called "trust" or "confidence" exercised toward the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior. Dr. T. Dwight. Faith is an affectionate, practical confidence in the testimony of God. J. Hawes.

To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said of the mind or of thought. Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space and distance falters. I. Taylor.