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picturepeople #30 : EXERCISE ROOMS exercise (vt): "to cause anxiety, alarm, or indignation" - from Latin ex-ercere - lit. "remove restraint" - from ex- "off" + arcere "keep away, prevent, enclose" - original sense may have been leading s.th. or s.o. from an enclosed space into the open to physical activity, e.g. driving farm animals to the field to plow - compare also exercitium, "spiritual meditation"