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- noun Plural form of
proficient .
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The bloggers meet-ups have been a great way to network and share ideas and experiences with those experimenting with the medium alongside long standing blogging proficients.
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When we are proficients, on the contrary, the results not only follow with the very minimum of muscular action requisite to bring them forth, they also follow from a single instantaneous "cue."
Dreams of Better Schools Delbanco, Andrew 2009
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English Botanists; and is now known in Europe among the proficients in that science as one of its most successful cultivators, and the author of some distinguished Works.
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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But gallantry, in which they also were proficients, was his professed pursuit; and he likewise affected great fondness for the martial amusement of the chase.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Still, without any practical skill in singing or in the training of a chorus, Antisthenes somehow had the art to select the greatest proficients in both.
Memorabilia 2007
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Yes, and by the same reasoning we are to infer that on a campaign he will find proficients, some to marshal the troops for him and others to fight his battles?
Memorabilia 2007
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It seems “night hunting was not to be practised within a certain considerable radius, whereby the proficients in that art might deprive it (lit. in order that they might not deprive) them (the young huntsmen) of their game.”
On Hunting 2007
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But all these of whom I speak are not proficients; they are novices; they only show the road in which man should travel, when the soul has greater health and prowess.
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When people read the lives of the saints and the penance they have done, or the manner of prayer they engaged in, so many in their first fervor attempt to imitate them, or to apply the advice of the mystical doctors written for proficients in the spiritual life to themselves - rousing love before it's time.
The problem of empathy Terry Nelson 2006
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When people read the lives of the saints and the penance they have done, or the manner of prayer they engaged in, so many in their first fervor attempt to imitate them, or to apply the advice of the mystical doctors written for proficients in the spiritual life to themselves - rousing love before it's time.
Archive 2006-11-19 Terry Nelson 2006
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