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/prˈæktəst/ /prˈæktɪst/ Listen

verb

Practice v. t. (past & past part. practiced; pres. part. practicing)

1.

To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. "Incline not my heart... practice wicked works."

2.

To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.

3.

To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.

4.

To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do. "Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practice your severity." "As this advice ye practice or neglect."

5.

To make use of; to employ. (Obs.) "In malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her."

6.

To teach or accustom by practice; to train. "In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor."

Practice v. i.

1.

To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.

2.

To learn by practice; to form a habit. "They shall practice how to live secure." "Practice first over yourself to reign."

3.

To try artifices or stratagems. "He will practice against thee by poison."

4.

To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law. "(I am) little inclined to practice on others, and as little that others should practice on me."

adjective

Practiced adj.

1.

Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock."

2.

Used habitually; learned by practice.

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Etymology of 'Practiced'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Practiced" Quotes from Famous Books

... in gold and silver. Importation of anything, other than the precious metals, was regarded as a loss to the nation of the whole price of the things imported; unless they were brought in to be re-exported at a profit, or unless, being the materials or instruments of some industry practiced in the country itself, they gave the power of producing exportable articles at smaller cost, and thereby effecting a larger exportation. The commerce of the world was looked upon as a struggle among nations, which could draw to itself the largest share of the gold and ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

... ecstasism is universal in the lower stages of culture. In times of great anxiety, every savage and barbarian seeks to know of the future. Through all the earlier generations of mankind, ecstasism has been practiced, and civilized man has thus an inherited appetite for narcotics, to which the enormous propensity to drunkenness existing in all nations bears witness. When the great actor in his personation of Rip Van Winkle holds his goblet aloft and says, "Here's to ...

— Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians • John Wesley Powell

... of the priest at Reuilly, whom he called on next day, Camors learned some of these details, while the old man practiced the violoncello with his heavy spectacles on his nose. Despite his fixed resolution of preserving universal scorn, Camors could not resist a vague feeling of respect for Madame de Tecle; but it ...

— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet

... thousand years since I saw you. Don't drive me away—just give me one chance for God's sake and this baby's that He sent us! I've gone straight. I've sent back every dishonest dollar. I'm earning a clean living down here and a good one. I've practiced for two years cutting out ...

— The Foolish Virgin • Thomas Dixon

... I reckon I could show you how to pull the trigger in a jiffy. That would be a certain kind of shootin'. But as for showin' you how to hit somethin' you shoot at, why, that's a little different. I've knowed men that practiced shootin' for years, ma'am, an' they couldn't hit a barn if they was inside of it. There's others that can hit most anything, right handy. They say it's all in the eye an' ...

— The Range Boss • Charles Alden Seltzer

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