Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Philippines and Cuba, a guide.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Cuba & Phil. Islands A guide.

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Examples

  • Young identifies two broad groups of such practico-inert objects and realities.

    Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Mikkola, Mari 2008

  • No te preocupes,hermano, que siempre me enseñaron a respetar a los que se dan a respetar y eso es algo que practico como una religión.

    The Featherweight Café. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Women make up a series unified through women's lives and actions being organised around certain practico-inert objects and realities that position them as women.

    Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender Mikkola, Mari 2008

  • No te preocupes,hermano, que siempre me enseñaron a respetar a los que se dan a respetar y eso es algo que practico como una religión

    The Featherweight Café. Ann Althouse 2008

  • The concepts of praxis, practico-inert and mediating third form the basis of a social ontology that merits closer attention than the prolix Critique encourages.

    Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004

  • Though Sartre resolutely insisted on the primacy of "free organic praxis" methodologically, ontologically, and ethically, on which he based the freedom and responsibility that define his humanism, he respected what his critic Louis Althusser called "structural causality" and made allowance for it with his concept of the practico-inert.

    Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004

  • Praxis is dialectical in the Hegelian sense that it surpasses and subsumes its other, the practico-inert.

    Jean-Paul Sartre Flynn, Thomas 2004

  • TRAWINSKI, H.F. BOUSA J.L.: Aplicationes y funcionamiento practico de los hidrocyciones, AKW, unpublished.

    Chapter 30 1993

  • I acknowledged that I was a "_pilot_," or "navigator," though not a "_practico_," or harbor-pilot; yet I urged that I could not, without absolute foolhardiness, undertake to conduct his schooner into a port of which

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • As an instance, the history is cited of a _practico_ or speculator who led an exploration for these trees in the valley of Apolobamba.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

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