English

Noun

practic ‎(plural practics)

1. A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

Adjective

practic ‎(comparative more practic, superlative most practic)

1. (archaic) Practical.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.i.4.3:

     They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].

2. (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

Derived terms

• practical

Related terms

• practise

External links

• practic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• practic in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911