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PRACTISED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Skillful after much practice
Synonyms:
practiced; practised
Classified under:
Similar:
experienced; experient (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb practise
Context examples:
She was very far from wishing to dwell on her own feelings, or to represent herself as suffering much, any otherwise than as the self-command she had practised since her first knowledge of Edward's engagement, might suggest a hint of what was practicable to Marianne.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I have come to see, she said, James Steerforth's fancy; the girl who ran away with him, and is the town-talk of the commonest people of her native place; the bold, flaunting, practised companion of persons like James Steerforth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And these were all the notions he had concerning that faculty of lying, so perfectly well understood, and so universally practised, among human creatures.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Here and there bounded Sir Nigel, his head erect, his jaunty plume fluttering in the air, while his dark opponent sent in crashing blow upon blow, following fiercely up with cut and with thrust, but never once getting past the practised blade of the skilled swordsman.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Spitz was a practised fighter.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
What! at three-and-twenty to be the king of his company—the great man—the practised politician, who is to read every body's character, and make every body's talents conduce to the display of his own superiority; to be dispensing his flatteries around, that he may make all appear like fools compared with himself!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!—seemed to burst from an overcharged heart, and to describe somewhat of the continual endurance to be practised by her, even towards some of those who loved her best.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by chambermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
