practiced

[prak-tist] /ˈpræk tɪst/
adjective
1.
skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience:
a practiced hand at politics.
2.
acquired or perfected through practice:
a practiced English accent.
Also, practised.
Origin
1560-70; practice + -ed2
Related forms
nonpracticed, adjective
well-practiced, adjective

practice

[prak-tis] /ˈpræk tɪs/
noun
1.
habitual or customary performance; operation:
office practice.
2.
habit; custom:
It is not the practice here for men to wear long hair.
3.
repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency:
Practice makes perfect.
4.
condition arrived at by experience or exercise:
She refused to play the piano, because she was out of practice.
5.
the action or process of performing or doing something:
to put a scheme into practice; the shameful practices of a blackmailer.
6.
the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine:
She plans to set up practice in her hometown.
7.
the business of a professional person:
The doctor wanted his daughter to take over his practice when he retired.
8.
Law. the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
9.
Archaic. plotting; intrigue; trickery.
10.
Usually, practices. Archaic. intrigues; plots.
verb (used with object), practiced, practicing.
11.
to perform or do habitually or usually:
to practice a strict regimen.
12.
to follow or observe habitually or customarily:
to practice one's religion.
13.
to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation:
to practice law.
14.
to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency:
to practice the violin.
15.
to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.
verb (used without object), practiced, practicing.
16.
to do something habitually or as a practice.
17.
to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
18.
to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill:
to practice at shooting.
19.
Archaic. to plot or conspire.
Also, British, practise (for defs 11–19).
Origin
1375-1425; (v.) late Middle English practisen, practizen (< Middle French pra(c)tiser) < Medieval Latin prāctizāre, alteration of prācticāre, derivative of prāctica practical work < Greek prāktikḗ noun use of feminine of prāktikós practic; see -ize; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.
Related forms
practicer, noun
mispractice, noun, verb, mispracticed, mispracticing.
nonpractice, noun
outpractice, verb (used with object), outpracticed, outpracticing.
overpractice, verb (used with object), overpracticed, overpracticing.
prepractice, verb, prepracticed, prepracticing.
repractice, verb (used with object), repracticed, repracticing.
Synonyms
2. See custom. 3. application. See exercise.
Examples from the web for practiced
  • The question, then, is not whether family limitation should be practiced.
  • The practiced pianist touches the right keys without thinking of them.
  • He practiced firing into a fence and concluded he was a better marksman than he had thought.
  • Yet remarkably, by the end of the first day, everyone has practiced the skills needed to shape beautiful pottery.
  • Seems as though the producers of the show practiced some pretty unethical editing practices.
  • Hundreds of years later, it is still practiced and still in style.
  • For health care is not practiced the same way across the country.
  • She had practiced earlier in the day, and even dressed in the locker room for the match.
  • The protest itself was an act of faith in politics as it is meant to be practiced.
  • The debates that surround authenticity have no relationship to popular music as it's been practiced for more than a century.
British Dictionary definitions for practiced

practised

/ˈpræktɪst/
adjective
1.
expert; skilled; proficient
2.
acquired or perfected by practice

practice

/ˈpræktɪs/
noun
1.
a usual or customary action or proceeding: it was his practice to rise at six, he made a practice of stealing stamps
2.
repetition or exercise of an activity in order to achieve mastery and fluency
3.
the condition of having mastery of a skill or activity through repetition (esp in the phrases in practice, out of practice)
4.
the exercise of a profession: he set up practice as a lawyer
5.
the act of doing something: he put his plans into practice
6.
the established method of conducting proceedings in a court of law
verb
7.
the US spelling of practise
Word Origin
C16: from Medieval Latin practicāre to practise, from Greek praktikē practical science, practical work, from prattein to do, act
Word Origin and History for practiced
adj.

"expert," 1560s, past participle adjective from practice (v.).

practice

v.

c.1400, "to do, act;" early 15c., "to follow or employ; to carry on a profession," especially medicine, from Old French pratiser, practiser "to practice," alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin practicare "to do, perform, practice," from Late Latin practicus "practical," from Greek praktikos "practical" (see practical).

From early 15c. as "to perform repeatedly to acquire skill, to learn by repeated performance;" mid-15c. as "to perform, to work at, exercise." Related: Practiced; practicing.

n.

early 15c., practise, "practical application," originally especially of medicine but also alchemy, education, etc.; from Old French pratiser, from Medieval Latin practicare (see practice (v.)). From early 15c. often assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice. Also as practic, which survived in parallel into 19c.

practiced in Medicine

practice prac·tice (prāk'tĭs)
v. prac·ticed, prac·tic·ing, prac·tic·es
To engage in the profession of medicine or one of the allied health professions. n.

  1. The exercise of the profession of medicine.

  2. The business of a practicing physician or group of physicians, including facilities and customary patients.

Slang definitions & phrases for practiced

practice

Related Terms

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Idioms and Phrases with practiced

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