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† ˈpractive, a. (n.) Obs.
[f. stem pract- in practic + -ive. (After active, etc.)]
1. Of persons:
a. Devoted to practice or action; active; practical.
c1470Harding Chron. cxciii. v, But right practyfe thei were in couetyse. 1610Boys Exp. Dom. Epist. & Gosp. Wks. (1622) 299 John doth resemble the contemplative, Peter the practive.
b. Apt to practice; adept, skilful, dexterous.
a1400–50Alexander 1582 Practyf men in prevatez, & prestez of þe lawe. 1536St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 378 Gentilmen..verey experte and practyve in the countrey there. 1593–4Sylvester Profit Imprisonment 94 You take your Pris'ner for a practive man of Art.
2. Belonging or relating to practice or action; practical.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (1531) 31 b, As well in maters speculatyue as practyue. 1613Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii. Wks. 1874 III. 185, I am Queene of loue, There is no practiue art of dalliance Of which I am not Mistresse. 1658Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 203 Not only..how to belive but for the practive part too, what to do.
B. n. Practice; actual doing or working.
1396–7in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1907) XXII. 298 [These] be þe uerray practyf of nigromancie rathere þanne of þe holi theologie. c1460Play Sacram. 591 Cunnyng yea yea & wt prattife [printed prattise] I haue sauid many a manys lyfe. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §4 It is harde to make a man to vnderstande it by wrytynge, without he were at the operation therof, to teache the practyue. Ibid. §141 It is better the practyue or knowlege of an husbande man well proued.
Hence † ˈpractively adv. Obs., practically, in practice, actively.
1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xxxix. (1612) 191 The Preachers and the people both then practiuely did thriue. 1602Ibid. ix. lii, Almes deedes, and workes of Charitie we practively professe. |