Obs. [ad. L. ex(s)ert-us pa. pple. of exserĕre to EXERT.] Used as pa. pple. of next. Also as ppl. a. EXSERT, EXSERTED.

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1647.  H. More, Song of Soul, I. I. xxxix. The self-same power (Which is exert upon each mortall wight). Ibid., II. ii. I. i. To view the various frie from their dark wombs exert.

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1661.  Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., Introd. They [the teeth] are not exert or serrate in any [animals] that are horned: but concavous in all.

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