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Definition of Exerted
1. exert [v] - See also: exert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exerted
Literary usage of Exerted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"These explosions must at the same time powerfully affect the sides of the funnel,
exposed as these are to the enormous pressure exerted by the imprisoned ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Indeed, we are familiar with the idea that attraction or repulsion exerted on
the electric charge which ordinary matter may bear is communicated to the ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"52) Those qualities were more nobly exerted in the defence of his benefactor
Licinius.(53) That officer, in the sedition which occasioned the death of ..."
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