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Practice
PRAC'TICE, n. [Gr. to act, to do, to make; Eng. to brook, and broker; L. fruor, for frugor or frucor, whence fructus, contracted into fruit; frequens.]
1. Frequent or customary actions; a succession of acts of a similar kind or in a like employment; as the practice of rising early or of dining late; the practice of reading a portion of Scripture morning and evening; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of virtue or vice. Habit is the effect of practice.
2. Use; customary use.
Obsolete words may be revived when the are more sounding or significant than those in practice.
3. Dexterity acquired by use. [Unusual.]
4. Actual performance; distinguished from theory.
There are two functions of the soul, contemplation and practice, according to the general division of objects, some of which only entertain our speculations, others employ our actions.
5. Application of remedies; medical treatment of diseases. Tow physicians may differ widely in their practice.
6. Exercise of any profession; as the practice of law or of medicine; the practice of arms.
7. Frequent use; exercise for instruction or discipline. The troops are daily called out for practice.
8. Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; usually in a bad sense.
He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
[This use of the word is genuine; from L. experior. It is not a mistake as Johnson supposes. See the Verb.]
9. A rule in arithmetic, by which the operations of the general rules are abridged in use.
PRAC'TICE, v.t. [From the noun. The orthography of the verb ought to be the same as of the noun; as in notice and to notice.]
1. To do or perform frequently, customarily or habitually; to perform by a succession of acts; as, to practice gaming; to practice fraud or deception; to practice the virtues of charity and beneficence; to practice hypocrisy. Isa 32.
Many praise virtue who do not practice it.
2. To use or exercise any profession or art; as, to practice law or medicine; to practice gunnery or surveying.
3. To use or exercise for instruction, discipline or dexterity. [In this sense, the verb is usually intransitive.]
4. To commit; to perpetrate; as the horrors practiced at Wyoming.
5. To use; as a practiced road. [Unusual.]
PRAC'TICE, v.i. To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broad sword; to practice with the rifle.
1. To form a habit of acting in any manner.
They shall practice how to live secure.
2. To transact or negotiate secretly.
I have practic'd with him,
And found means to let the victor know
That Syphax and Sempronius are his friends.
3. To try artifices.
Others, by guilty artifice and arts
Of promis'd kindness, practic'd on our hearts.
4. To use evil arts or stratagems.
If you there
Did practice on my state--
5. To use medical methods or experiments.
I am little inclined to practice on others,and as little that others should practice on me.
6. To exercise any employment or profession. A physician has practiced many years with success.
practice appears in definitions for these words:
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Calends Cannibalism Canon Canonist Captation Carriage Castration Catilinism Cavillation Ceremoniousness Chamber-practice Cheat Cheater Chicane Chirology Chiromancy Chivalry Chorography Christian Cicisbeism Cipher Circensian Circumcise Climax Clinic Clothing Coining Coloration Commensality Compel Compound Compurgation Conclusion Concubinage Condemn Confine Confinement Confirmation Conjuration Conjure Conjurer Consentaneous Construction Conterpractice Convert Conveyance Conveyancing Cookery Cordwood Coscinomancy Countenance Cozenage Cudgel Cultivation Curfew Curiosity Custom Customariness Customary Cutpurse Cystotomy Dancer Daub Deal Dealing Deceit Deceitful Deceitfulness Deception Decimate Declamation Declamatory Deism Deist Depart Desuetude Dexterity Dictation Digesting Diploma Directory Disaccustom Disaccustomed Disallow Disciplinant Disciplinarian Discipline Discontinue Discontinuer Discount Discounting Disease Disingenuousness Disprove Distant Distill Distinguish Disusage Disuse Divine Do Docimacy Doctor Doer Dominant Double-dealing Dram Draw Dress Drinker Drinking Droll Dueling Duplicity Dyeing Earnest Eccentric Effeminate Egotism Electioneering Empale Empiric Empiricism Enchant Enchanter Enchantress Encouragement Enticement Epistolography Equity Espionage Eudiometry Evade Exact Examination Examine Exchanger Exercise Exercised Exercitation Exhortation Experience Experienced Expert Expertness Extort Extorter Extortion Extortioner Facility Faculty Falconry Fallowist Familiarize Familiarized Familiarizing Farrier Fashion Fashionably Favoritism February Fence Fencer Fiendful Filthy Fishing Flesh Fletcher Flour Flout Flyfishing Follow Followed Foolery Foolishness Football Foppery Form Formalist Formality Fortunetelling Fowling Frequent Full-winged Fulling Game Gaming Gaming-house Garrulity Gasometry Gentleman Geographically Gilding Gipseyism Go Godfather Goldsmith Gouge Graft Grammar Grave Grow Guiniad Gymnosophist Habit Habitual Habitually Habituate Habituating Hackney Hackneyed Half Hall Hammercloth Handiness Handle Harlot Harlotry Haunt Hawk Hectorism Hepatoscopy Heraldry Heretic Him Hippophagy Histrionism Hold Hollow-hearted Horedom Horometry Horoscopy Horseracing Hospitality Humor Hunting Huntsman Huntsmanship Husband Husking Huzza Hydromancy Hypostasis Ichthyophagy Illuminate Illuminating Illumination Illuminator Immemorial Immoral Immorality Impatient Impeach Importation Imposition Imposture Impracticability Impracticably Impropriety Improve Inch Inconformity Indent Indentation Indiction Indirection Indisposition Indulge Indulging Inexpert Influence Innovation Inoculate Inoculation Insure Intermeddle Introduce Introducer Introducing Introduction Inure Inurement Irregularity Irreligiousness Japan Japanning Jesuitism Jilt Jockeyship Judicature Juggle Juggler Juggling K Keep Kick Knavery Knight-errantry Knock Late Laundress Laureation Learn Learning Lecher Lechery Lecture Leg Lesson Leveling Lexigraphy Libation Libertinism Lift Lipwisdom Lithographer Lithotomy Litigious Longimetry Look Loquaciousness Machiavelism Magician Malign Malpractice Man-midwife Management Manner Marbling Marry Massacer May Meal Mendicate Meretricious Methodist Midwifery Mimic Mine Mistake Modern Modernism Moral Moralist Morality Morals Mortgage Mortification Mortify Mow Nazaritism Neurotomy Never Newness Nicker Nicolaitan Nomad Nomancy Notation Nowhere Noxious Nugation Observance Observant Observation Observe Observed Observer Observing Obtain Ogham Old Ordeal Orthography Orthometry Ox Pack Paganizing Paint Palification Palmistry Paracelsian Parapet Paring Pass Pea Peculation Pedobaptist Persecution Pettifoggery Pharisean Pharmaceutic Pharmacy Philosophism Philosophist Philosophistic Phlebotomy Piety Pilfer Pilferer Pioneer Pious Piracy Piscation Play Pledge Plow Ply Poetry Polyandry Polyautography Polygyny Popery Post Posture-master Powerfully Practicability Practical Practically Practice Practicer Practitioner Pragmatic Praise Prattle Praxis Prayer Preparatory Pretension Prevail Prevalence Prevarication Primitively Print Printing Priscillianist Profession Propagandism Proscribe Prostitution Provision Provisor Prudence Psalmody Psalmography Pudding-time Pugilism Punning Puritanic Puritanism Put Quackery Quackism Quarter Querulousness Quoit Rakishness Rampancy Rantism Rapacity Rationalist Read Rectitude Recusation Recuse Refer Refine Refinement Regard Regrate Regular Regularly Relapse Religion Religious Relinquish Repentance Reservedness Revendication Ride Rig Righteous Rigid Rigidness Ring Ringleader Robust Roguery Rompishness Rote Roundhead Routine Rude Ruinous Rumbud Ruminate Run Sacramentary Sacrifice Sarcophagy Saw Schismatize Science Scrape Seek Seel Self-imposture Sell Sermon Serve Set-off Severity Sew Shake Sheep-bite Sheep-biter Shift Shifter Shotting Shrewdly Shun Siderography Silvering Simplicity Sir Skillful Sleight Slide Sluttery Sluttishness Smell Smoking Sociableness Soiling Solicitor Sortilege Species Specuation Speculative Speculatively Spin Spinning Spoil Spoliate Spoliation Squat Stabling Stargazing Statuary Steal Stealth Steerage Steganographist Stereotypography Stickle Stitch Stop Stove Straight Strappado Structure Studiousness Style Subhastation Superstition Supervenient Surcease Surmise Swear Swearing Swindler Swing Tachygraphy Tailor Take Talkativeness Tallowing Tamper Tanistry Target Tattoo Teach Tergiversate Text-hand Thanksgiving Theology Theory Thieve Thievery Thievish Thievishness Thrash Throughout Tillage Tilt Tinning Tippling Tivering Tobacco Tolerate Toothache-tree Top-chain Toy Trade Traded Tradition Train Training Treasonable Trenching Trick Truckage Truth Tumbler Tun Turf Turnserving Turnstone Tyrannicalness Unclean Uncondemned Underhand Underletting Underwrite Underwriting Undesigning Unexercised Unexperienced Unfair Unfairness Unhackneyed Uninured Unpracticed Unruliness Untaught Unwonted Upbraid Uprightness Ure Usage Use Usual Usure Usury Vaccination Vaticinate 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Ablaqueation Ablution Abomination Abstinence Absurd Abuse Accent Accubation Accustom Accustomance Accustomarily Accustomed Accustoming Addict Addicted Addiction Admission Admonish Adoption Adore Advisable Advocate Aeronautism Affecter Agreeable Alchimist Alcohol Alectryomancy Alkoran Ambition Amercement Anagrammatism Anathema Ancient Anthropophagy Antic Apostolic Apostolics Apothecary Archery Archeus Aristocrat Arrival Arrive Artifice Astringent Astrologize Athletic Attend Attorney Aucupation Auguration Augury Aurigation Auspicate Avenue Average Baccalaureate Backslide Backslider Backsliding Baffetas Bandage Banishment Barber-chirurgeon Bargain Barratry Barter Batenists Batenites Batfowler Bawdry Beastliness Beating Beg Begging Belomancy Beneficence Beverage Bible Bigot Bigoted Bigotry Bishop Black-bird Blow Boating Bone-setting Bookbinding Bookmaking Boy Brachygraphy Break Breakpromise Briber Bribery Bring Broke Broking Buffoon Buffoonery Buffoonism Build Bull Calculalation Calculate Calends Cannibalism Canon Canonist Captation Carriage Castration Catilinism Cavillation Ceremoniousness Chamber-practice Cheat Cheater Chicane Chirology Chiromancy Chivalry Chorography Christian Cicisbeism Cipher Circensian Circumcise Climax Clinic Clothing Coining Coloration Commensality Compel Compound Compurgation Conclusion Concubinage Condemn Confine Confinement Confirmation Conjuration Conjure Conjurer Consentaneous Construction Conterpractice Convert Conveyance Conveyancing Cookery Cordwood Coscinomancy Countenance Cozenage Cudgel Cultivation Curfew Curiosity Custom Customariness Customary Cutpurse Cystotomy Dancer Daub Deal Dealing Deceit Deceitful Deceitfulness Deception Decimate Declamation Declamatory Deism Deist Depart Desuetude Dexterity Dictation Digesting Diploma Directory Disaccustom Disaccustomed Disallow Disciplinant Disciplinarian Discipline Discontinue Discontinuer Discount Discounting Disease Disingenuousness Disprove Distant Distill Distinguish Disusage Disuse Divine Do Docimacy Doctor Doer Dominant Double-dealing Dram Draw Dress Drinker Drinking Droll Dueling Duplicity Dyeing Earnest Eccentric Effeminate Egotism Electioneering Empale Empiric Empiricism Enchant Enchanter Enchantress Encouragement Enticement Epistolography Equity Espionage Eudiometry Evade Exact Examination Examine Exchanger Exercise Exercised Exercitation Exhortation Experience Experienced Expert Expertness Extort Extorter Extortion Extortioner Facility Faculty Falconry Fallowist Familiarize Familiarized Familiarizing Farrier Fashion Fashionably Favoritism February Fence Fencer Fiendful Filthy Fishing Flesh Fletcher Flour Flout Flyfishing Follow Followed Foolery Foolishness Football Foppery Form Formalist Formality Fortunetelling Fowling Frequent Full-winged Fulling Game Gaming Gaming-house Garrulity Gasometry Gentleman Geographically Gilding Gipseyism Go Godfather Goldsmith Gouge Graft Grammar Grave Grow Guiniad Gymnosophist Habit Habitual Habitually Habituate Habituating Hackney Hackneyed Half Hall Hammercloth Handiness Handle Harlot Harlotry Haunt Hawk Hectorism Hepatoscopy Heraldry Heretic Him Hippophagy Histrionism Hold Hollow-hearted Horedom Horometry Horoscopy Horseracing Hospitality Humor Hunting Huntsman Huntsmanship Husband Husking Huzza Hydromancy Hypostasis Ichthyophagy Illuminate Illuminating Illumination Illuminator Immemorial Immoral Immorality Impatient Impeach Importation Imposition Imposture Impracticability Impracticably Impropriety Improve Inch Inconformity Indent Indentation Indiction Indirection Indisposition Indulge Indulging Inexpert Influence Innovation Inoculate Inoculation Insure Intermeddle Introduce Introducer Introducing Introduction Inure Inurement Irregularity Irreligiousness Japan Japanning Jesuitism Jilt Jockeyship Judicature Juggle Juggler Juggling K Keep Kick Knavery Knight-errantry Knock Late Laundress Laureation Learn Learning Lecher Lechery Lecture Leg Lesson Leveling Lexigraphy Libation Libertinism Lift Lipwisdom Lithographer Lithotomy Litigious Longimetry Look Loquaciousness Machiavelism Magician Malign Malpractice Man-midwife Management Manner Marbling Marry Massacer May Meal Mendicate Meretricious Methodist Midwifery Mimic Mine Mistake Modern Modernism Moral Moralist Morality Morals Mortgage Mortification Mortify Mow Nazaritism Neurotomy Never Newness Nicker Nicolaitan Nomad Nomancy Notation Nowhere Noxious Nugation Observance Observant Observation Observe Observed Observer Observing Obtain Ogham Old Ordeal Orthography Orthometry Ox Pack Paganizing Paint Palification Palmistry Paracelsian Parapet Paring Pass Pea Peculation Pedobaptist Persecution Pettifoggery Pharisean Pharmaceutic Pharmacy Philosophism Philosophist Philosophistic Phlebotomy Piety Pilfer Pilferer Pioneer Pious Piracy Piscation Play Pledge Plow Ply Poetry Polyandry Polyautography Polygyny Popery Post Posture-master Powerfully Practicability Practical Practically Practice Practicer Practitioner Pragmatic Praise Prattle Praxis Prayer Preparatory Pretension Prevail Prevalence Prevarication Primitively Print Printing Priscillianist Profession Propagandism Proscribe Prostitution Provision Provisor Prudence Psalmody Psalmography Pudding-time Pugilism Punning Puritanic Puritanism Put Quackery Quackism Quarter Querulousness Quoit Rakishness Rampancy Rantism Rapacity Rationalist Read Rectitude Recusation Recuse Refer Refine Refinement Regard Regrate Regular Regularly Relapse Religion Religious Relinquish Repentance Reservedness Revendication Ride Rig Righteous Rigid Rigidness Ring Ringleader Robust Roguery Rompishness Rote Roundhead Routine Rude Ruinous Rumbud Ruminate Run Sacramentary Sacrifice Sarcophagy Saw Schismatize Science Scrape Seek Seel Self-imposture Sell Sermon Serve Set-off Severity Sew Shake Sheep-bite Sheep-biter Shift Shifter Shotting Shrewdly Shun Siderography Silvering Simplicity Sir Skillful Sleight Slide Sluttery Sluttishness Smell Smoking Sociableness Soiling Solicitor Sortilege Species Specuation Speculative Speculatively Spin Spinning Spoil Spoliate Spoliation Squat Stabling Stargazing Statuary Steal Stealth Steerage Steganographist Stereotypography Stickle Stitch Stop Stove Straight Strappado Structure Studiousness Style Subhastation Superstition Supervenient Surcease Surmise Swear Swearing Swindler Swing Tachygraphy Tailor Take Talkativeness Tallowing Tamper Tanistry Target Tattoo Teach Tergiversate Text-hand Thanksgiving Theology Theory Thieve Thievery Thievish Thievishness Thrash Throughout Tillage Tilt Tinning Tippling Tivering Tobacco Tolerate Toothache-tree Top-chain Toy Trade Traded Tradition Train Training Treasonable Trenching Trick Truckage Truth Tumbler Tun Turf Turnserving Turnstone Tyrannicalness Unclean Uncondemned Underhand Underletting Underwrite Underwriting Undesigning Unexercised Unexperienced Unfair Unfairness Unhackneyed Uninured Unpracticed Unruliness Untaught Unwonted Upbraid Uprightness Ure Usage Use Usual Usure Usury Vaccination Vaticinate Venation Venefice Ventriloquy Versification Veteran Vice Viciousness Vie Virtue Visit Vogue Void Voyage Vulgar Wagon Walk Warn Warning Wasteful Wastefulness Way Weave Whip-grafting Whip-stitch Whore Whoredom Whoremaster Whorishness Wicked Wickedness Wile Wind Wipe Wisdom Wit Witch Witchcraft Wo Work World Wrong Year Zendavesta
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