exercise someone's mind

Examples of exercised

exercised

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Another element undermining the total control exercised by central government was the question of corruption.
Demarcation applies also to the debates in which scientists engage, where criticism is exercised.
Where judges accepted the comprehensiveness rationale, they were greatly increasing the discretion of local officials to determine where and how private rights could be exercised.
Yet, earlier prime ministers have not exercised this right.
The first involved questions of authority, such as who exercised ultimate authority and whether any limits could be placed on this power.
Had the commissioners exercised their powers it is likely that the subsidy yield could have been sustained.
Though he still exercised some of the influence appropriate to his status, he was an absentee lord lieutenant.
Caution must be exercised in extrapolating from these observations, since it is easy to over-generalize from the few portraits of working-class life we have.
Such partiality can be exercised through overt pressures or through subtle constraints on open expression.
In these investigations, a class of trees is considered, and a type of random walk on it is exercised.
The variable measuring ' days per week exercised ' produced no significant results.
This practice is still exercised heavily today, not so much in church and architecture but in cinema and set design.
For the early churches, control was exercised by detailed drawings and instructions.
Thus, the landed proprietors exercised a good amount of autonomy and authority in the economic sphere.
Care managers said that users rarely exercised or were offered a choice in selecting a domiciliary care agency.
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