Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. PRACTICABIL'ITY
2. PRAC'TICABLE, adjective
3. That may be done, effected or performed by human means, or by powers that can be applied. It is sometimes synonymous with possible, but the words differ in this; possible is applied to that which might be performed, if the necessary powers or means could be obtained; practicable is limited in its application to things which are to be performed by the means given, or which may be applied. It was possible for Archimedes to lift the world, but it was not practicable.
4. That may be practiced; as a practicable virtue.
5. That admits of use, or that may be passed or traveled; as a practicable road. In military affairs, a practicable breach is one that can be entered by troops.
The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.
1. That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.
2. Capable of being used; passable; as, a practicable weapon; a practicable road.
The quality or state of being practicable; feasibility.
In such a manner as may be performed. 'A rule practicably applied before his eyes, ' is not correct language. It is probably a mistake for practically.
1. Pertaining to practice or action.
2. Capable of practice or active use; opposed to speculative; as a practical understanding.
3. That may be used in practice; that may be applied to use; as practical knowledge.
4. That reduces his knowledge or theories to actual use; as a practical man.
5. Derived from practice or experience; as practical skill or knowledge.
1. Of or pertaining to practice or action.
2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.
To render practical.
1. In relation to practice.
2. By means of practice or use; by experiment; as practically wise or skillful.
3. In practice or use; as a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.
1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.
3. In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.
4. Almost.
The quality of being practical.
Same as Practicality.
1. Frequent or customary actions; a succession of acts of a similar kind or in a like employment; as the practice of rising early or of dining late; the practice of reading a portion of Scripture morning and evening; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of virtue or vice. Habit is the effect of practice
2. Use; customary use.
3. Obsolete words may be revived when the are more sounding or significant than those in practice
4. Dexterity acquired by use. [Unusual.]
5. Actual performance; distinguished from theory.
6. There are two functions of the soul, contemplation and practice according to the general division of objects, some of which only entertain our speculations, others employ our actions.
7. Application of remedies; medical treatment of diseases. Tow physicians may differ widely in their practice
8. Exercise of any profession; as the practice of law or of medicine; the practice of arms.
9. Frequent use; exercise for instruction or discipline. The troops are daily called out for practice
10. Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; usually in a bad sense.
11. He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
12. [This use of the word is genuine; from Latin experior. It is not a mistake as Johnson supposes. See the Verb.]
13. A rule in arithmetic, by which the operations of the general rules are abridged in use.
1. To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broad sword; to practice with the rifle.
2. To form a habit of acting in any manner.
3. They shall practice how to live secure.
5. I have practic'd with him,
6. And found means to let the victor know
7. That Syphax and Sempronius are his friends.
8. To try artifices.
9. Others, by guilty artifice and arts
10. Of promis'd kindness, practic'd on our hearts.
11. To use evil arts or stratagems.
12. If you there
13. Did practice on my state--
14. To use medical methods or experiments.
15. I am little inclined to practice on others, and as little that others should practice on me.
16. To exercise any employment or profession. A physician has practiced many years with success.
1. To do or perform frequently, customarily or habitually; to perform by a succession of acts; as, to practice gaming; to practice fraud or deception; to practice the virtues of charity and beneficence; to practice hypocrisy. Isaiah 32:1 .
2. Many praise virtue who do not practice it.
3. To use or exercise any profession or art; as, to practice law or medicine; to practice gunnery or surveying.
4. To use or exercise for instruction, discipline or dexterity. [In this sense, the verb is usually intransitive.]
5. To commit; to perpetrate; as the horrors practiced at Wyoming.
6. To use; as a practiced road. [Unusual.]
1. Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
2. Customary or constant use; state of being used.
3. Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
4. Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
5. Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
6. Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
7. Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
8. A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
9. The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
1. To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
2. To learn by practice; to form a habit.
3. To try artifices or stratagems.
4. To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.
1. To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
2. To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
3. To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
4. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
5. To make use of; to employ.
6. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
Done by a repetition of acts; customarily performed or used.
2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
1. One that practices; one that customarily performs certain acts.
2. One who exercises a profession. In this sense, practitioner is generally used.
1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.
2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner.
3. One who uses art or stratagem.
One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.
Performing or using customarily; exercising, as an art or profession.
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2 KJV and 83 BSB verses contain “practic” — showing the first 20. Show all 85 verses (searchable)
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.
Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.”
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
You must not eat anything with blood still in it. You must not practice divination or sorcery.
And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
And you shall keep My statutes and practice them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.
If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire and practiced divination and soothsaying. They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the LORD, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the LORD commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
but he sought the God of his father and walked by His commandments rather than the practices of Israel.
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.