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Exert v. t. (past & past part. exerted; pres. part. exerting)

To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. (Obs.) "So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led."

To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the strength of the body, limbs, faculties, or imagination; to exert the mind or the voice.

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."

To exert one's self, to use efforts or endeavors; to strive; to make an attempt.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Exert" Quotes from Famous Books

... of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. And it is equally certain that the tastes and pursuits of our manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our ...

— Decline of Science in England • Charles Babbage

... ring as you have done upon the finger of a statue erected to me. I claimed fulfilment of the pledge then, as now; but a force I could not withstand was invoked against me, and I was made to give up the ring, and with it the power and rights I strove to exert. But I will not again be thwarted: no force, no being shall snatch you from me; so be not deceived. Submit, ere you excite my fierce displeasure; submit now, since in the end submit ...

— The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance • F. Anstey

... were coming on again in their supreme effort. It was as a nightmare, in which only the objective of effort is recalled and all else is a vague struggle of every ounce of strength which one can exert against smothering odds. No use to ask these men what they thought. What do you think when you are climbing up a rope whose strands are breaking over the edge of a precipice? ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... Messianic idea of the Kingdom of God, something will be said in the next chapter. But this Doxology was believed efficacious to save the departed soul when uttered by the living son. The generations were thus bound together, and just as the merits of the fathers could exert benign influence over the erring child on earth, so could the praises of the child move the mercy of God in favour of the erring father in Purgatory. It was a beautiful expression of the unbreakable chain of tradition, a tradition whose links were human hearts. ...

— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

... expelled under the same. It is greatly to the praise of those who have been allowed to grow old in the service that so much has been done. No men, however, are more apt at such work than Americans, or more able to exert themselves at their posts. They are not idle. Independently of any question of remuneration, they are not indifferent to the well-being of the work they have in hand. They are good public servants, unless corruption come ...

— Volume 2 • Anthony Trollope

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