practitioner

[Eng. practician; -er.] *1. One who practices or does anything habitually or frequently; a practicer. 2. One who exercises or practices any profe ion; espec. one who practices the profe ion of medicine. *3. One who practices or uses artful or dangerous arts; a plotter. General practitioner: One who practices both medicine and surgery. *prăc-tive, a . [PRACTICE.] Active. *prăc-tive-ly, adv . [Eng. practive ; -ly .] In a practive manner. "They practively did thrive." Warner: Albion's England , bk. viii., ch. xxxix. præ, pref . [PRE-.] For words compounded with præ , where two forms exist, and the prefix pre- has taken, or is mitical, præceptory, ., see PRE ADAM I TICAL, PRECEPTORY, . prăc-tiçe, prăc-tise, *prac-tize, v. t. & i. gradually taking, the place of præ, as in præada. [PRACTICE, 8. ] A. Transitive: præ-çi-pě, s. (Lat. imper. sing. of præcipio = 1. To do or perform habitually or frequently; to to give instruction or precepts.] [PRECEPT.] make a practice of; to carry on habitually. "What that usage meant, Which in her cott she daily arcticed ." Spencer: F. Q., II. vi. 9. 2. To do, not merely to profe ; to carry into effect. ( Thomson : Castle of Indolence , ii. 12.) Law : A writ commanding something to be done, or demanding a reason for its non-performance. The term is now only used to denote the note of instructions delivered by a plaintiff or his attorney to the officer of the court, who stamps the writ of summons . The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia præcoces