PRACTISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practised mean? 

• PRACTISED (adjective)
  The adjective PRACTISED has 1 sense:

1. skillful after much practice

  Familiarity information: PRACTISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Skillful after much practice

Synonyms:

practiced; practised

Similar:

experienced; experient (having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation)

 Context examples 

It is no easy matter, and requires a strong and practised arm.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hal’s theory, which he practised on others, was that one must get hardened.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour at court.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She did most heartily grieve over the idleness of her childhood—and sat down and practised vigorously an hour and a half.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He bounded back from his perilous foeman; but the other, heated by the bout, rushed madly after him, and so gave the practised wrestler the very vantage for which he had planned.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To so practised and indefatigable a horseman as Mr. Rochester, it would be but a morning's ride.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was so humiliating to reflect on the constant deception practised on her father and Elizabeth; to consider the various sources of mortification preparing for them!

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The hunters have experimented and practised with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their spritsails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order—to use Leach’s homely phrase.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Lady Catherine approached, and, after listening for a few minutes, said to Darcy: Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practised more, and could have the advantage of a London master.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Fanny began to dread the meeting with her aunts and Tom, under so dreadful a humiliation; and Susan to feel with some anxiety, that all her best manners, all her lately acquired knowledge of what was practised here, was on the point of being called into action.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)