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Definition of Practised
1. Adjective. Skillful after much practice.
Definition of Practised
1. Verb. (past of practise) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Practised
1. practise [v] - See also: practise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Practised
Literary usage of Practised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"And not only these, but many other eminent painters have practised ... The two
countries in which etching has been most practised are Holland and France. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Then follow Divine revelations regarding belief in false prophecies, and disbelief
in the very presence of the idolatry practised in and near the temple ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"When the disciples, after the completion of the Messianic work, took up again
the baptismal rite which they had formerly practised at his command (John iii, ..."
4. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"How can this faculty be explained 1 Is it a consequence of the more practised
habits of perception and keener senses, common to all men in a savage state, ..."
5. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"... gentlewoman having practised with great success in the late plague in this
city, anno 1 1636, gives her advice only to the female sex. ..."
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