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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
practise .
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Examples
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I seeing my self at liberty, and pretty near the Land, knowing I could swim very well, having practis'd the same among the Boys in the Country, I leaped into the Sea, and so got to Land; here I found some difficulty, having no
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Crimes and loose Living; Murder, Rapin, and Oppression, were frequently practis'd by them; and if the suffering Inhabitants complain'd to the
Exilius 2008
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I seeing my self at liberty, and pretty near the Land, knowing I could swim very well, having practis'd the same among the Boys in the Country, I leaped into the Sea, and so got to Land; here I found some difficulty, having no
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But the young Gentleman, instead of studying the Laws of his Country, practis'd the Mode of the Times, and kept the Wife of an unhappy Citizen, made so partly by her Vanity and Coquettry, 'till he was forced to seek his
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Retreat, and instruct me in those Rudiments of Humility and Self − Denyal which he there practis'd in Perfection.
Exilius 2008
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Confusion of Face, for having so ill practis'd those excellent Precepts and Examples.
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Confusion of Face, for having so ill practis'd those excellent Precepts and Examples.
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Amour, and that too, with one espoused to another; which Reprimands I must needs own were no more than the Crime deserv'd, and very suitable to those strict Rules of Virtue and Honour they always practis'd, and in which they instructed me their dear Disciple and darling Daughter.
Exilius 2008
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Busy the virgins muse, their practis'd ditty recalling,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Busy the virgins muse, their practis'd ditty recalling,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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