Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Active; actual.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Doing; active.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
doing ;active
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Examples
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Racial prejudice is still in practive all over our wonderful country.
First on the CNN Ticker: GOP questions Obama's police criticism 2009
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Ken Livingstone has this in practive by effectively allowing only the rich to drive in central london.
What Are We Defending ? Newmania 2007
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I’ve enjoyed the exchange … it made me think hard about some issues that Dave is trying to get us to consider and why it’s so mucher harder in practive than it is in theory.
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People who get called wordsmith practive their trade well and deserve the title.
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It has exerted a "monopoly" on what ultimately can be regarded as acceptable practive both of fiction-writing and of literary criticism in the same way New York film culture monopolized the critical discourse about film.
Statement of Purpose 2008
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Many of the younger generation of priests less than 40 have returned to the practive of habit/cassock with the surplice and stole.
H.E. Malcolm Ranjith installed as Archbishop of Colombo 2009
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They are expensive costs us 5,000 a month for a practive of 5 in Family Medicine and we do not use it.
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What the software aimed to do was to provide the architecture for, as she wrote in the compendium Democracy Online, "deliberative practive in cyberspace."
Government at the Edges: Noveck's View of Participatory Democracy 2009
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After Easter, politely inform the bishop by sending a friendly inquiry about the practive.
Yes, Rebecca, confessions are allowed during the Triduum! 2009
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To fight against such practive global administrative measurement should take in action promptly.
SCAM GIRL 2008
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