- Often written practisepractisedpractising
- To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.Incline not my heart . . .practicewicked works.Ps. cxli. 4.
- To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
- To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
- To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon topracticeyour severity.As this advice ye practice or neglect.
- To make use of; to employ.ObsIn malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
- To teach or accustom by practice; to train.In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor.
