Definitions for practise

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practise prac·tise

Spelling: [prak-tis]

IPA: /ˈpræk tɪs/

Practise is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 676 anagrams from letters in practise (aceiprst).

Definitions for practise

noun

1. habitual or customary performance; operation:
2. habit; custom:
3. repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency:
4. condition arrived at by experience or exercise:
5. the action or process of performing or doing something:
6. the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine:
7. the business of a professional person:
8. Law. the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
9. Archaic. plotting; intrigue; trickery.
10. Usually, practices. Archaic. intrigues; plots.

verb (used with object)

1. to perform or do habitually or usually:
2. to follow or observe habitually or customarily:
3. to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation:
4. to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency:
5. to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.

verb (used without object)

1. to do something habitually or as a practice.
2. to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
3. to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill:
4. Archaic. to plot or conspire.

verb (used with or without object)

1. practice.

Origin of practise

1375-1425; (v.) late Middle English practisen, practizen (Middle French pra(c)tiser) Medieval Latin prāctizāre, alteration of prācticāre, derivative of prāctica practical work Greek prāktikḗ

Examples for practise

Why, says she, I must confess there is truth in what you say, and I will endeavour to practise it.

One, a young Jesuit who had been in England, was delighted to practise his English.

Because, I said, our rulers will often have to practise upon the body corporate with medicines.

It was the greatest stretch of forbearance I could practise.

Then women must be taught music and gymnastic and also the art of war, which they must practise like the men?

He had come some four years before to practise medicine at Lonway Four Corners.

I must practise and see if I can accomplish an attitude like that.

In theory she was to compare Calhoun's lessons with his practise when alone.

I do not doubt but that by God's help you practise all this.

A professor,' he exclaims, 'and practise such villanies as these!