Practise
['præktɪs]
Definition
(v. t. & i.) See Practice.
Editor: Wilma
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [Written also Practice.] [1]. Do (frequently), perform.[2]. Exercise, apply, pursue, carry on.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Perform, exercise, deal_in, carry_on,[See PERFORM]
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Definition
v.t. to put into practice or to do habitually: to perform: to exercise as a profession: to use or exercise: to teach by practice: to commit.—v.i. to have or to form a habit: to exercise any employment or profession: to try artifices.—n. Prac′tisant (Shak.) an agent.—adj. Prac′tised skilled through practice.—n. Prac′tiser.—adj. Prac′tising actively engaged in professional employment.
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Examples
- As he might get an excellent smoke for half the price, he has no need to practise economy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The extortioner does not practise in the home. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He left her alone only when he went skiing, a sport he loved, and which she did not practise. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The disguise, equivocation, mystery, so hateful to her to practise, might soon be over. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You saw that we, who understand and practise those rules, believed all your stories; why do you refuse to believe ours? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- True happiness lies in self-abnegation, a virtue which all men preach, but few men practise. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- And what classes of chance people come to practise at your gallery? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Daguerreotypy, while the father of them all, is now hardly practised as Daguerre practised it, and has become a small subordinate sub-division of the great class. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This was the reason why Asclepius and his sons practised no such art. Plato. The Republic.
- On returning from Mrs. Vesey's, I instructed Marian to write (observing the same caution which I practised myself) to Mrs. Michelson. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A quick glance of her practised eye showed her, even through the deep dark shadow, the sculls in a rack against the red-brick garden-wall. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She brought his cigar and lighted it for him; she knew the effect of that manoeuvre, having practised it in former days upon Rawdon Crawley. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He had invented a shorthand of his own, which he taught me, but, not having practised it, I have now forgotten it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He is practising at a German bath, and has married a rich patient. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When they arrived there, they found the old man practising his clarionet in the dolefullest manner in a corner of the room. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Go away to your practising. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was wholly at a loss to know what could be the use or necessity of practising those vices. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- But if any fraud or treachery is practising against him, I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Just feel of my knuckles, now; look at my fiSt. Tell ye, sir, the flesh on 't has come jest like a stone, practising on nigger--feel on it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault--because I will not take the trouble of practising. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She practises very constantly. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
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