| 单词 | horse-exercise |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorse-exercise 7. Exertion of the muscles, limbs, and bodily powers, regarded with reference to its effect on the subject; esp. such exertion undertaken with a view to the maintenance or improvement of health. Often with distinguishing words, as carriage-exercise, horse-exercise, open air exercise, walking, etc., exercise. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > for health exercitation1382 exercisec1386 exercition1525 apotherapy1653 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 19 Attempre dyete was al hir phisik, And exercise and hertes suffisaunce. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xvi. sig. Hvi By exercise..the helthe of man is preserued. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §299 Use not Exercise and a Spare Diet..if much Exercise, then a Plentifull Diet. 1700 J. Dryden To my Kinsman J. Driden in Fables 97 The Wise, for Cure, on Exercise depend. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 261 Violent Exercise or Labour produceth this Effect. 1779 S. Johnson Let. 23 June (1992) III. 175 Exercise is labour used only while it produces pleasure. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 31 To work in your garden, for the sake of exercise. 1865 Handy Horse Bk. 32 Two hours' daily exercise at a fast walk will be enough to keep a hack fit for his work. horse-exercise horse-exercise n. ΚΠ 1807 S. T. Coleridge Let. to Davy 11 Sept. in Lett. (1895) 515 I have..received such manifest benefit from horse-exercise. < as lemmas |
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