proficience

Yet so entirely had the Stoics, for practical purposes, to accept this lower level, that the word "proficience" has come to be spoken of as though it were of Stoic origin.

Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock

Keeping with that theme, how many students changed their proficience level relative to last year.

Moneyball and Money Teachers Matt Johnston 2007

For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking, by the order and perspicuous expressing of that I do propound, I am otherwise zealous and affectionate to recede as little from antiquity, either in terms or opinions, as may stand with truth and the proficience of knowledge.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and humane.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

For as the proficience of learning consisteth much in the orders and institutions of universities in the same states and kingdoms, so it would be yet more advanced, if there were more intelligence mutual between the universities of Europe than now there is.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

In general, there will hardly be any main proficience in the disclosing of nature, except there be some allowance for expenses about experiments; whether they be experiments appertaining to

The Advancement of Learning 2003

This I am induced to speak, for that (not derogating from the noble intention of any that have been deservers towards the state of learning), I do observe nevertheless that their works and acts are rather matters of magnificence and memory than of progression and proficience, and tend rather to augment the mass of learning in the multitude of learned men than to rectify or raise the sciences themselves.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Peripatetics, on the other hand, recognized an intermediate state between virtue and vice, to which they gave the name of progress and proficience.

Guide to Stoicism St. George William Joseph Stock

“To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God’s word, or in the book of God’s works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both.

Epigrams 1909

Here is a page of “Troilus and Cressida,” a page from that terrible fourth scene of the fourth act, when Troilus, having to part from Cressida, warns her against the Greeks and their proficience in the arts of love:

The Man Shakespeare Harris, Frank, 1855-1931 1909