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Definitions for Practiced

[1] skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
[2] acquired or perfected through practice: a practiced English accent.
[3] habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
[4] habit; custom: It is not the practice here for men to wear long hair.
[5] repeated performance or systematic exercise for the purpose of acquiring skill or proficiency: Practice makes perfect.
[6] condition arrived at by experience or exercise: She refused to play the piano, because she was out of practice.
[7] the action or process of performing or doing something: to put a scheme into practice; the shameful practices of a blackmailer.
[8] the exercise or pursuit of a profession or occupation, especially law or medicine: She plans to set up practice in her hometown.
[9] the business of a professional person: The doctor wanted his daughter to take over his practice when he retired.
[10] Law . the established method of conducting legal proceedings.
[11] Archaic . plotting; intrigue; trickery.
[12] Usually practices. Archaic . intrigues; plots.
[13] to perform or do habitually or usually: to practice a strict regimen.
[14] to follow or observe habitually or customarily: to practice one's religion.
[15] to exercise or pursue as a profession, art, or occupation: to practice law.
[16] to perform or do repeatedly in order to acquire skill or proficiency: to practice the violin.
[17] to train or drill (a person, animal, etc.) in something in order to give proficiency.
[18] to do something habitually or as a practice.
[19] to pursue a profession, especially law or medicine.
[20] to exercise oneself by repeated performance in order to acquire skill: to practice at shooting.
[21] Archaic . to plot or conspire.
[22] a usual or customary action or proceeding it was his practice to rise at six ; he made a practice of stealing stamps
[23] repetition or exercise of an activity in order to achieve mastery and fluency
[24] the condition of having mastery of a skill or activity through repetition (esp in the phrases in practice, out of practice )
[25] the exercise of a profession he set up practice as a lawyer
[26] the act of doing something he put his plans into practice
[27] the established method of conducting proceedings in a court of law
[28] the US spelling of practise

Words related to Practiced

adept, skilled, proficient, exercised, able, expert

Words nearby Practiced

practically, practice, practice makes perfect, practice what you preach, practice-teach, practiced, practicing, practicum, practise, practised, practitioner

Origin of Practiced

1375–1425; (v.) late Middle English practisen, practizen (< Middle French pra(c)tiser ) < Medieval Latin prāctizāre, alteration of prācticāre, derivative of prāctica practical work < Greek prāktikḗ noun use of feminine of prāktikós practic; see -ize; (noun) late Middle English, derivative of the v.

Other words from Practiced

non·prac·ticed , adjective
well-prac·ticed , adjective
prac·tic·er , noun
mis·prac·tice , noun, verb, mis·prac·ticed, mis·prac·tic·ing.
non·prac·tice , noun
out·prac·tice , verb (used with object), out·prac·ticed, out·prac·tic·ing.
o·ver·prac·tice , verb (used with object), o·ver·prac·ticed, o·ver·prac·tic·ing.
pre·prac·tice , verb, pre·prac·ticed, pre·prac·tic·ing.
re·prac·tice , verb (used with object), re·prac·ticed, re·prac·tic·ing.

Word origin for Practiced

C16: from Medieval Latin practicāre to practise, from Greek praktikē practical science, practical work, from prattein to do, act

Synonyms for Practiced

adept, proficient, skilled, exercised, able, expert