Definitions for practises

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practises prac·tise

Spelling: [prak-tis]

IPA: /ˈpræk tɪs/

Practises is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 852 anagrams from letters in practises (aceiprsst).

Definitions for practises

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 practises

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 practises

The Sponge-crab (Dromia vulgaris) also practises this method of shelter.

And he looks into the sand-grave near him, where little Najib practises how to die.

The sceptic, to be at all effective, practises this trust as really as does his opponent.

Mr. Wing is an American-born Chinese and practises the profession of a valet.

But the other doctor, who practises on freemen, proceeds in quite a different way.

She is famed for her letter-writing; and, I believe, practises every morning on a slate.

Now that he is hard up he practises on others what was practised on himself.

But no other genus of Longicorn, so far as I am aware, practises this craft.

If she works, or practises one of the arts, she does this only until marriage.

Every art unfolds its secrets and its beauty only to the man who practises it.