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pratic

pratic is the alternative form of pratique.

Meaning of pratique

Noun

pratique (countable and uncountable, plural pratiques)

  1. Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
    • It is here a cuſtome ſtrictly obſerued (as alſo elſevvhere vvithin the Streights belonging to the Chriſtians) not to ſuffer any to trafficke or come aſhore before they haue a Pratticke from the Signoirs of Health: vvhich vvill not be granted vntill forty dayes after their arriuall, […]...1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, pages 5–6
  2. (obsolete) Practice; habits.
    • Whereas in private teaching, their company is either superiors, inferiors, and if equals, but a few, without the liberty and variety of pratique as in a populous school.a. 1734, Roger North, Autobiography

Questions about pratic

What is pratic the alternative form of?
Pratic is the alternative form of pratique.

Words near pratic in the dictionary

  1. Pratham
  2. Prathama
  3. Prather
  4. Prathers
  5. Pratibha
  6. pratic
  7. pratie
  8. praties
  9. Pratigya
  10. Pratik
  11. Pratiksha

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