Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
practic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Practice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
practice .
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Examples
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Roman, Arabian, and Syrian; and he was skilled in astronomy and in leechcraft, the theorick as well as the practick; he was experienced in all that healeth and that hurteth the body; conversant with the virtues of every plant, grass and herb, and their benefit and bane; and he understood philosophy and had compassed the whole range of medical science and other branches of the knowledge tree.
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In short I have learned the theorick and the practick of all the arts and sciences;
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_Lastly_, In your Ringing _Changes_, these two things (in which consists the practick part of this Art) are to be rightly considered.
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He also proposed a grandiose scheme for an agricultural college, in order to teach youths "the theorick and practick parts of this most ancient, noble, and honestly gainfull art, trade, or mystery."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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The Soul of Religion is the practick part: Pure Religion and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The First Part. Paras. 400-499 1909
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As soon as the boy shows proofs of puberty, he and his coevals are taken in hand by the mediciner and the Fetisheer; and, under priestly tuition, they spend months in the "bush," enduring hardships and tortures which impress the memory till they have mastered the "theorick and practick" of social and sexual relations.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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In short I have learned the theorick and the practick of all the arts and sciences; I know everything of them by rote and I am a past master in tota re scibili.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Henry the Fourth had set France on fire with his gallant fancies, and "win and wear" was the true practick of the day.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832
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And thus much for the first extreme mentioned; by which Satan has poisoned the principles and theoretick part of religion; though the poison will be found of that spreading malignity, as to influence the practick too.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823
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Now as there are two great functions of the soul, contemplation and practice, according to that general division of objects, some of which only entertain our speculation, others also employ our actions; so the understanding with relation to these, not because of any distinction in the faculty itself, is accordingly divided into speculative and practick; in both of which the image of God was then apparent.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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