practicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɹæktɪk/

名詞

practic (plural practics)

1. A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

派生語

形容詞

practic (comparative more practic, superlative most practic)

1. (archaic) Practical.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , II.i.4.3:

     They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].

2. (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

派生語

• practical

関連する語

• practise

参照

Further reading

• “practic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “practic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.