exercitation

"More are made good by exercitation, than by nature," said Democritus.

On the other hand cognitive retraining tries to improve impaired capacities by exercitation of mental abilities.

'An Exercitation concerning Usurped Power,' without date. '

Thomas Porter, 'minister at Whitchurch,' replied the following year in 'A Serious Exercitation.'

Adam Martindale wrongly credited him with writing the An Exercitation concerning Usurped Powers (1650).

The imprimatur of Porter's pamphlet, entitled 'A Serious Exercitation,' is dated 26 December 1650, and by that time Knowles was 'late preacher at Chester.'

'An Exercitation concerning the original of the Chapters and Verses in the Bible, wherein the divine authority of the Points in the Hebrew text is clearly proved,' &c., 1698.

A Reply to the said Answer, etc., 4to, London [1 July], 1650, in refutation of a pamphlet which had appeared in the previous February entitled A Vindication of the Oath of Allegiance by 'the Author of the Exercitation concerning Usurped Powers.'

The work is compiled mostly from Latin, French, and English sources, such as Arias Montano's Aaron, Calmet's dictionary, Goodwin's Moses and Aaron, Owen's Exercitation on the Hebrews, Johannes Buxtorf's De Synagoga Judaica, and Jacob Christian Basnage's history.