Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who practises or performs, or carries out in action or conduct.
  • noun One who exercises a profession; a practitioner.
  • noun One who uses schemes or stratagem; one who plots; a conspirator.

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  • noun One who practises. agent noun of practise.

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Examples

  • "And he's a good practiser, which is far better," said his wife.

    Janet's Love and Service 1859

  • Nor less in matters of war, in the use of the bow and the javelin, was he held by men in general to be at once the aptest of learners and the most eager practiser.

    Anabasis 2007

  • And the religious fanaticism that Morier tweaked also echoes down the years: A character named Nadan who wants to become Tehran's religious leader, Morier writes, has no peer "either as a zealous practiser of the ordinances of his religion, or a persecutor of those who might be its enemies."

    Five Best 2007

  • Mr. Squinny is of exactly the opposite school, as delicate as milk-and-water, harmless in his habits, fond of the flute when the state of his chest will allow him, a great practiser of waltzing and dancing in general, and in his journal mildly malicious.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • It is absolutely requisite that the complete person he contemplator of things which have a being, and the practiser of those thing which are decent; and this easily appears by the following instances.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Saturn was a man, fabled to have escaped by flight from his son to avoid being thrust from his kingdom; Jupiter also, the lewdest practiser of all debaucheries and of unnatural vice, the abuser of the women of his own family, who could not even abstain from intercourse with his own sister, as she herself admitted in the words “sister and spouse of Jove.”

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

  • And to this end God prescribed in the law that the king should still have a copy of the law of God by him, therein to read continually, Deut.xvii. 18-20; because he was to be not only a practiser, but also a protector thereof, a keeper of both tables.

    The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

  • Not because he was the "father of the faithful," forsook home and country for the truth's sake, was the most eminent preacher and practiser of righteousness in his day; nay, verily, for all this he gets faint praise; but then he had "SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH MONEY!!!"

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Not because he was the "father of the faithful," forsook home and country for the truth's sake, was the most eminent preacher and practiser of righteousness in his day; nay, verily, for all this he gets faint praise; but then he had "SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH MONEY!!!"

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • O thou of wicked soul, thou too art a practiser of such feline behaviour.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

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