Word Finder - practise

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To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.

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You should practise playing piano every day.

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To repeat an activity in this way.

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If you want to speak French well, you need to practise.

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To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.

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They gather to practise religion every Saturday.

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To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).

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She practised law for forty years before retiring.

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To conspire.

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To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.

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To make use of; to employ.

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To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

A rescript of Augustus forbade Roman citizens to practise druidical rites.

He then settled at Amsterdam, intending to practise medicine.

He studied law in London and began to practise in Charleston in 1761.

He began to practise in 1892 in New York.

There is much faith in dreams, and in the utterances of certain "wise men," who practise an embryonic magic and witchcraft.

The priests diligently practise all the precepts of their rituale.g.

The natives are of Papuan type, and practise cannibalism.

The inmates practise agriculture, as well as various industries for supplying all the requirements of the colony.

I had read some Lamaze books, but had not had time to practise the exercises.

As a public speaker his style was incisive, forceful and often eloquent, although he made no effort to practise oratory as an art.

Urban was the last pope to practise nepotism on a grand scale.

Yeomen were bidden to practise archery, to which they much preferred football and golf.

He did not practise long, but joined a secret organization of professional revolutionists.

The southern and western peoples still practise infanticide as regards children born on several unlucky days in each month.

His power to grant degrees in medicine, qualifying the recipients to practise, was practically restrained by the Medical Act 1858.

In 1736 he began to practise in Hamilton, where he rapidly acquired a high reputation.

Beginning to practise in 1834, Juarez speedily rose to professional distinction, and in the stormy political life of his time took a prominent part as an exponent of liberal views.

In 1895 he returned to Cape Town and practised as an advocate of the Supreme Court of the Cape till the end of 1896, when he went to Johannesburg to practise as an advocate there.

While France was thus inwardly convulsed, its rulers were doubly bound to husband the national strength and practise moderation towards other states.

At the Dissolution its revenues amounted to between £750 and £800 a year, exclusive of meadows, pastures, fisheries, mines, mills and salt works, and the wealth of the monks enabled them to practise a regal hospitality.

Possessing the arts of both races they practise them with greater skill than either.

His internal administration was marked by gross extravagance, which led to his viziers being forced to practise violent extortion for which they afterwards suffered.

He graduated from the university of North Carolina in 1818, studied law in the office of Felix Grundy (1777-1840) at Nashville in 1819-1820, was admitted to the bar in 1820, and began to practise in Columbia, the county-seat of Maury county.

The inwardness of savage religion - the meaning it has for those who practise it - constitutes its essence and meaning likewise for him, who after all is a man and a brother, not one who stands really outside.

There he met the younger Lewis Hallam (1738-1808), a pioneer American theatrical manager and actor, who induced him to remove to the United States, and in 1783 he settled in Philadelphia, where he at once took the oath of allegiance to the United States, was admitted to practise law in 1785, and rapidly attained a prominent position at the bar.

In addition to the farm work, the members often practise various trades, the proceeds of which are paid into the common treasury.

The name of Barere de Vieuzac, by which he continued to call himself long after the renunciation of feudal rights on the famous 4th of August, was assumed from a small fief belonging to his father, a lawyer at Vieuzac. He began to practise as an advocate at the parlement of Toulouse in 1770, and soon earned a considerable reputation as an orator; while his brilliant and flowing style as a writer of essays led to his election as a member of the Academy of Floral Games of Toulouse in 1788.

Experience can only be gained by a horse continuing during a considerable time to practise what he has been taught.

He had then left Oxfcrd and gone up to London to practise as an advocate in the principal ecclesiastical court, the court of arches.

By parity of reasoning a blood ritual may have been adopted by peoples who practise the expulsion of evils, conceiving them either animistically or as powers; catharsis, in the sense of removal of uncleanness, is not necessarily primitive.

Next year he began to practise, but without very brilliant results, for five years later he definitely abandoned the exercise of his profession on accepting the post of compiler of abstracts in the registrar-general's office.

The medical art as we now practise it, the character of the physician as we now understand it, both date for us from Hippocrates.

After studying at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium, Berlin, and at the universities of Halle and Göttingen, Raumer began to practise law, and rose in the civil service under Hardenberg, the chancellor.

They believe in a future life and practise both circumcision and baptism.

The band itself was undergoing some changes too as David, feeling too pressured by his big brother's insistence of regular practise, left for good.

He was admitted to the bar and began to practise law at Kingston, N.Y.

Abi `Amir proposed to confiscate a religious foundation and the assembled ulema refused to approve the act, and were threatened by his vizier, one of them replied, "All the evil you say of us applies to yourself; you seek unjust gains and support your injustice by threats; you take bribes and practise ungodliness in the world.

And even amongst the adherents of the left-hand mode of worship, many of these are said to follow it as a matter of family tradition rather than of religious conviction, and to practise it in a sober and temperate manner; whilst only an extreme section - the so-called Kaulas or Kulinas, who appeal to a spurious Upanishad, the Kaulopanishad, as the divine authority of their tenets - persist in carrying on the mystic and licentious rites taught in many of the Tantras.

She had no less difficulty in gaining a qualifying diploma to practise medicine.

Society is described as honeycombed with crimes and vices; prophets, priests, princes and the people generally are said to practise unblushingly extortion, oppression, murder, falsehood, adultery (xxii.).

During the middle ages the Scandinavians were the first to revive geographical science and to practise pelagic navigation.

He was educated at Douai, and then studied medicine in Paris until the year 1831, when he returned to his native town to practise his profession.

In 1780 he left the academy qualified to practise as a surgeon, and was at once appointed by the duke to an ill-paid post as doctor to a regiment garrisoned in Stuttgart.

Instead of accompanying his father to London, he, of his own choice, returned to Massachusetts, graduated at Harvard College in 1787, three years later was admitted to practise at the bar and at once opened an office in Boston.

But when men set themselves to cultivate skill in disputation, regarding the matter discussed not as a serious issue, but as a thesis upon which to practise their powers of controversy, they learn to pursue, not truth, but victory; and, their criterion of excellence having been thus perverted, they presently prefer ingenious fallacy to solid reasoning and the applause of bystanders to the consciousness of honest effort.

He decided at last to practise law, and after a course at the Harvard law school, was admitted to the bar.

He studied law at Salisbury, North Carolina, was admitted to the bar there in 1787, and began to practise at McLeansville, Guilford county, North Carolina, where for a time he was a constable and deputy-sheriff.

There is a permissible abstraction, and in general they practise this, and although they narrow its range unduly, it is legitimately to be applied to certain characters of thinking.

Their religion teaches them benevolence as the first principle, and no people practise it with more liberality.

At Paris he thought of going on the stage, but was induced to finish his legal training and began to practise as an advocate (1817-1824).