practisedpracticedadj.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth iv. f. 4^v They..thynketh it a moost great & syngular craft or practysed wysdome to wynne benyuolence, by salutyng the commen people, and by dyssimulate reuerence done to euery man passyng by them.

?1534 tr. Dialoge Julius sig. ev^v These princes which by my practised polycy made warre one agaynst another.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 97 I haue seene them shiuer and looke pale,..Throttle their practiz'd accent in their feares. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 118 Making practis'd Smiles As in a Looking-Glasse. View more context for this quotation

1678 T. Otway Friendship in Fashion iv. 41 Her naturall and unexperienced Tenderness exceeded practis'd Charms.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 342 He, whose practis'd wit Knew all the serpent-mazes of deceit.

a1791 T. Blacklock Poems (1793) 48 Thy conscious charms, thy practis'd arts, Those adventitious beams that round thee shine.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. viii. 110 The whole party..was made acquainted with the nature of the disaster, that had disturbed even the practiced stoicism of their youthful Indian protector.

1877 H. James American xvii. 291 This person was looking round..and her fan was moving to and fro with the most practiced grace.

1909 J. London South of Slot in Sat. Evening Post 22 May 4/2 Either arm betrayed a practiced familiarity in stealing around girls' waists.

1960 W. Percy Moviegoer iii. iv. 130 A clumsy yet practiced movement that ends with her wrists bent in, in a womanish angle.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Oct. 69/4 The practiced courtroom affability of the plaintiff's attorney.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcj^v A compainei of warlike and practised souldiors.

1663 J. Mayne tr. Lucian Part of Lucian sig. Vv2^v Your Art, of which you seem to be so practised a master.

1775 B. Franklin London 783 Our composers of music..are admirable at pleasing practised ears, and know how to delight one another.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 316 With acceptable treat of fish or fowl By nature yielded to his practised hand.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 714 To the practised eyes of the Kentish fishermen she looked much like a French privateer.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It li. 362 He..offered conclusive evidence that he wielded an easy and practiced pen, and so Mr. F. engaged him at once to help write the novel.

1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) i. vi. 201 My practised men fastened the sail at the top.

1925 B. Rackham tr. E. Hannover Pottery & Porcelain I. iii. ii. 96 It requires a practised eye to distinguish between a genuine and a spurious Orvieto jug.

1955 R. C. Hutchinson Stepmother vii. 48 She stopped as a practised speaker does who has exactly filled his time.

2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 Apr. 24/1 The Bush campaign is already..taking a few good swipes at John Kerry. Kerry's a practiced counterpuncher, though.

1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) x. lv. 247 Throckmorton yeat, more priuie and more practising than those,..Did Mischiefes that imported more our practiz'd State disclose.

1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. iii. 142 Leading us into a less practis'd walk.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 945 To serve thir Lord..with songs to hymne his Throne, And practis'd distances to cringe, not fight. View more context for this quotation

1911 Bookman Dec. 168/2 Every lyrical poet has to resist the temptation to say over again, more eloquently, practisedly, but less well, what he has said..in his first impulse.

1984 New Yorker 20 Feb. 131/1 It's not simply the husky voice speaking practicedly into the microphone.

2012 L. Prebble Effect 93 Connie gives him a newspaper, practisedly. She gets out a mirror, practisedly, he looks at himself.

1716 D. Ryder Diary 14 Oct. (1939) (modernized text) 346 A long practicedness in the world seems very much to have wore off that nice sense of virtue.

1883 J. Purves in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 352 Honesty he ascribes to practisedness in the world's ways.

1987 Southwest Rev. 72 460 Ah Robert the sheer practicedness of it [sc. a kiss] told me how much greater the danger of you must be for me.

2010 D. Crewe in R. Lippens & P. Van Calster New Direct. for Criminol. ii. 50 Qualities..such as scale, age, practicedness, density, and so on.