practitionaladj.
/prakˈtɪʃn̩(ə)l/, /prakˈtɪʃən(ə)l/, U.S. /prækˈtɪʃən(ə)l/, /prækˈtɪʃn̩(ə)l/ rare.† 1. Given to plotting; scheming, crafty. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > in contrivance or machination
politic1543
practical1563
fetching1570
driftyc1571
Machiavellian1572
stratagematical1583
stratagemical1585
stratagematic1589
drifting1596
enterprising1602
Machiavelline1602
practitional1602
engineering1631
polititious1638
Machiavellic1645
designing1661
intriguing1790
manoeuvring1801
systematizing1827
scheming1838
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 201 Chiefe ambitious practitionall state Iesuits.
2. = practical adj. 1a.
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the world > action or operation > doing > [adjective] > as opposed to theoretical
practica1425
practical?a1425
practive1526
pragmatical1597
active1605
operary1612
operarious1656
practitional1724
unbookish1887
practico-1913
applicational1917
hands-on1960
1724 J. Laurence in S. Switzer et al. Pract. Fruit-gardener (facing title page) All Lovers of Gardening are thereby sure to meet with practitional, rather then specious and imaginary Instructions.
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 1 It is the best practitional book and the truest philosophy in existence.
1965 Western Polit. Q. 18 622 Not only did this impression beget a distorted picture of reality... It also stamped itself firmly upon the academic and practitional minds as a shibboleth.
1999 A. Furnham & P. Heaven Personality & Social Behaviour i. 2 Zachar and Leong showed that pure (scientific) vs. applied (practitional) graduate students had quite different personalities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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