practise
/ˈpɹæktɪs/ verb
Also a form of practice
Forms practises practising practised practice
- verb (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity. “You should practise playing piano every day.”
- verb (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way. “If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.”
- verb (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion. “They gather to practise religion every Saturday.”
- verb (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine). “She practised law for forty years before retiring.”
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire.
- verb To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
- verb To make use of; to employ.
- verb To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
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Etymology
From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), from prāctica (“practical affairs", "business”), from Ancient Greek πρᾱκτική (prāktikḗ), from πρᾱκτικός (prāktikós, “practical”), from πρᾱ́σσειν (prā́ssein, “to do”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per(h₂)- (“to go over, cross”).
Webster’s 1913
- verb See Practice.
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “practise”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details