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practic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹæktɪk/

Etymology

From Middle English practic, practik, partly from Old French practique and partly from its etymon, Late Latin prācticus (“active”), from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”). Doublet of practico.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Practical.
   • They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […]. , II.i.4.3
2. (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
   • she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...]. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

chiropractic

Relateds

practise · practical

practic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹæktɪk/

Etymology

From Middle English practic, practik, partly from Old French practique and partly from its etymon, Late Latin prācticus (“active”), from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”). Doublet of practico.

Meanings

1. A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

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