practic

From Old French, from Late Latin practicus (“active”), from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “I do”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹæktɪk/

practic (plural practics)

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

practic (comparative more practic, superlative most practic)

1. (archaic) Practical.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , 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, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

• practical

• practise

• practic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “practic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

From French pratique, from Latin practicus.

practic m or n (feminine singular practică, masculine plural practici, feminine and neuter plural practice)

1. practical
2. doable