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Practiced   /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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"Practiced" Quotes from Famous Books



... old he was fully as strong as the average man of thirty, and far more agile than the most practiced athlete ever becomes. And day by ...
— Tarzan of the Apes • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... up," and practiced, and talked (of anything but the baby), and even hinted shamelessly once or twice that she would like to go to the theater; but all to little avail. True, Bertram brightened up, for a minute, when he came home and found her in a new or a favorite dress, and he told her how pretty she ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter
... of fruit are desired, thinning is practiced. It helps also to prevent the tree from being overtaxed by excessive crops. But where pruning is thoroughly done this trouble is usually avoided. Peaches and Japan plums are especially benefited by thinning, as they have ...
— Home Vegetable Gardening • F. F. Rockwell
... narrative. The following year, in the consulship of Manius Acilius and Gaius Piso, Mithridates encamped against Triarius near Gaziura, trying to challenge and provoke him to battle; for incidentally he himself practiced watching the Romans and trained his army to do so. His hope was to engage and vanquish Triarius before Lucullus came up and thus get back the rest of the province. As he could not arouse him, he sent some men to Dadasa, a garrison where the Romans' ...
— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio
... proposed to make happy forever, but to-day to blight with regret like a "worm i' the bud." He already had a vague presentiment that such a role would often mortify his tastes and inclinations most dismally; and yet, what had he henceforth to do with pleasure? But if, after he had practiced the austerity of an anchorite, she should forget him, marry another, and be happy! The thought was excruciating. O, that awful "another"! He is the fiend that drags disappointed lovers down to the lowest ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe


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