different between practice vs pharisaic

English

Etymology

See practise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ækt?s/

Noun

practice (usually uncountable, plural practices)

1. Repetition of an activity to improve a skill.

   Synonyms: rehearsal, drill, dry run, exercise, training, trial, workout

2. An organized event for the purpose of performing such repetition.

3. (uncountable, especially medicine, art) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
   • 2016, Raphael Vella, Artist-Teachers in Context: International Dialogues, Springer (?ISBN), page 53

     Which is the most demanding? I think that my practice as an artist is 'stronger' because it is the practice that best fuels and balances myself and that generates new knowledge for my other work as both arts educator and creative arts therapist.

4. (countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.

   Synonym: general practice

5. The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
6. A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine.

   Synonyms: custom, habit, pattern, routine, wont, wone

7. Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.

   Antonym: theory

8. (law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.

9. Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

10. (mathematics) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

Usage notes

British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English spelling distinguishes between practice (noun) and practise (verb), analogously with advice/advise. In American English, the spelling practice is commonly used for both noun and verb.

Derived terms

Related terms

• practic
• practicable
• practical
• practitioner

Translations

Verb

practice (third-person singular simple present practices, present participle practicing, simple past and past participle practiced)

1. (US) Alternative spelling of practise

Derived terms

• practiced
• practicing

Further reading

• practice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?prak.ti.ke/, [?p?äkt??k?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?prak.ti.t??e/, [?p??kt?it???]

Adjective

practice

1. vocative masculine singular of practicus

English

Etymology

Pharisee +? -ic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f????se?j?k/

Adjective

pharisaic (comparative more pharisaic, superlative most pharisaic)

1. Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
2. (chiefly Christianity) Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning.
   • 1913, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (Act I, Scene 1)

     The church clock strikes the second quarter.

     HIGGINS [Hearing in it the voice of God, rebuking him for his Pharisaic want of charity for the poor girl]

3. Self-righteous.

Synonyms

• pharisaical

Related terms

• pharisaic
• pharisaically
• pharisaicalness
• pharisaism

Translations

See also

• Pharisee

Anagrams

• chirapsia