Practice

prak'tis, n. Frequently repeated or customary actions; customary use, habit; performance, disting. fr. theory: exercise of a profe ion, or limits within which a profe ion is practiced; skillful management; art; stratagem; artifice; a rule arithmetic, by which the operations of the general rules are abridged in use. (Law.) The established or prescribed form, manner, and order of conducting suits. — v.t. [practiced (-tist), -ticing.] do or perform frequently or habitually; to carry in practice or repeated action; to apply (a theory) real life; to exercise (a profe ion, trade, art, etc.); to commit, perpetrate. — v. i. To perform certain acts customarily; to learn by practice; to try fices or stratagems; to exercise an employment profe ion, esp. that of medicine or of law. — Practitioner, -tish'un-er, n. One engaged in the actual exercise of any art or profe ion, esp. in law or medicine. — Practicable, -tT-ka-bl, a. Capable of being practiced, performed, or done; po ible to be accomplished; admitting of use, or of being pa ed or traveled; po ible; feasible. — Prac'tical, -tT-kal, a. Pert, to practice; capable of being turned to use; evincing practice or skill; ready to apply knowledge to some useful end; derived from practice. —Practical joke. A trick or joke which annoys or injures some one person, feelings, or property; a joke the fun of which consists in something that is done.— Practically, adv. In relation to practice; by means of practice or conuse; by experiment; in practice or use. — Practicalne , n.— Pragmatic, prag-mat'ik, -ical, a. Pert, to with busine ; material; over-forward in acting; officious; meddling; meddlesome; impertinent. — n. One active or skilled in busine ; a solemn ordinance or vesdecree i ued by the head of a state..