practise
/ˈpɹæktɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
Example Sentences
- "You should practise playing piano every day."
- "The legislation also seeks to outlaw “balconing”, the practice of jumping into a swimming pool from a hotel balcony that kills several people each year. In future, hotels will have to evict anyone practising balconing or encouraging others to do so."
- "If you want to speak French well, you need to practise."
- "They gather to practise religion every Saturday."
- "Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]"
- "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair."
Etymology
From Middle English practizen, a variant of practisen, from Middle French pratiser, practiser, from Medieval Latin practizo, from Late Latin practico (“to do, perform, execute, propose, practise, exercise, be conversant with, contrive, conspire, etc.”), from prāctica (“practical affairs", "business”), from Ancient Greek πρᾱκτική (prāktikḗ), from πρᾱκτικός (prāktikós, “practical”), from πρᾱ́σσειν (prā́ssein, “to do”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per(h₂)- (“to go over, cross”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: practizen, pratiser, -, πρᾱκτική, *per-