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Webster 1913 Edition
Pratique
1.
(Com.)
Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; – a term used particularly in the south of Europe.
2.
Practice; habits.
[Obs.]
“One of English education and pratique.” R. North.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pratique
PRATIQUE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
pratique
pratique
See also: pratiqué
English
Noun
pratique (plural pratiques)
- Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with a quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
- (obsolete) practice; habits
- R. North
- One of English education and pratique.
- R. North
References
- Pratique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “pratique” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
- “pratique” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin practica.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁa.tik/
Adjective
pratique m, f (plural pratiques)
- applied; concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it (as opposed to spéculatif or théorique).
- concrete, practical.
- belonging to the everyday or mundane.
- experienced.
- convenient; handy.
- Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Derived terms
Noun
pratique f (plural pratiques)
- practice.
- execution or implementation of something.
- methods, process, way of doing or achieving something.
- set of customs in a country or group of people.
- C'est la pratique de ce pays. ― Those are the customs of this country.
- experience.
- C'est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires. ― This is a man with business experience.
- act of frequenting.
- Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société. ― He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people.
- clientele, regular clients, or business therewith.
- La pratique n'afflue pas à ce magasin. ― Customers don't flow to that store.
- Vous me servez mal, vous n’aurez plus ma pratique. ― You’re serving me poorly, you're going to lose my business.
- (nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine).
- On donna pratique à ce navire après qu'il eut fait la quarantaine. ― We gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine.
- a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism.
Verb
pratique
- first-person singular present indicative of pratiquer
- third-person singular present indicative of pratiquer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of pratiquer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of pratiquer
- second-person singular imperative of pratiquer
References
- “pratique” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
- “pratique” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).