Practice vs Catamitism - What's the difference?
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Repetition of an activity to improve skill.
(uncountable) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts.
(countable) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice.
The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members.
A customary action, habit, or behavior; a manner or routine.
Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory.
(legal) 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.
Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice.
* Sir Philip Sidney
(math) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
(US) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.
(US) To repeat an activity in this way.
(US) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.
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(US) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).
(intransitive, archaic, US) To conspire.
The practice of keeping catamites.
* 1686 : and Ferrand Spence, The Hi?tory of the ''Life'' and ''Actions'' of that Great Captain of his Age the Vi?count de Turenne,
* 1973 : Roy Temple House and Ernst Erich Noth, Books Abroad , volume 47, issue 3,
* 1989 : The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats , volume 22,
* 1996 : Jacqueline Long, Claudian’s ''In Eutropium:'' Or, How, When, and Why to Slander a Eunuch ,
* 2005 : Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius: An Antonine Scholar and His Achievement ,
(philosophy, rare) The essence of being a catamite.
* 1994 : Michael Ryan, “Foucault’s Fallacy” in Reconstructing Foucault: Essays in the Wake of the 80s ,
As nouns the difference between practice and catamitism
is that practice is repetition of an activity to improve skill while catamitism is the practice of keeping catamites.As a verb practice
is to repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.practice
English
(wikipedia practice)Alternative forms
* (British) practise (used only for the verb )Noun
(practices)- He will need lots of practice with the lines before he performs them.
- She ran a thriving medical practice .
- It is the usual practice of employees there to wear neckties only when meeting with customers.
- It is good practice to check each door and window before leaving.
- That may work in theory, but will it work in practice ?
- This firm of solicitors is involved in family law practice .
- He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
- (Francis Bacon)
Usage notes
British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English distinguish between practice'' (a noun) and ''practise (a verb), analogously with advice/advise. In American English, practice is commonly used for both forms, and this is also common in Canada.Synonyms
* (improvement of skill) rehearsal, drill, exercise, training, workout * (customary action) custom, habit, routine, wont, wone * fashion, pattern, trick, way, dry run, trialDerived terms
* general practice * overpractice * practice makes perfect * practice what one preaches * put into practice * sharp practiceVerb
(practic)- You should practice playing piano every day.
- If you want to speak French well, you need to practice .
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- They gather to practice religion every Saturday.
- She practiced law for forty years before retiring.
Usage notes
* In sense "to repeat an activity as a way improving one's skill" this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeDerived terms
* practiced * practicingcatamitism
English
Noun
(-)page 312:
- [T]he Vi?count de Turenne''…Remon?trated to Madam ''de Buillon , that this Prince having us’d his fir?t Wife Ill, whom he had kick’d when with Child, of which ?he dy’d, ?twas expo?ing her Daughter to the like treatment; that he was addicted to Wine and Women, Qualities not only unworthy a Per?on of his Rank, but all?o to a little Catamiti?m …
page 574:
- Exhibitionists do not like to confess their venial sins — catamitism and group sex, yes, petty avarice and pettier maliciousness, no: the latter faults do not make for salable reading.
page 136:
- In Satire 4, Persius attacked Nero’s “depilation and heterosexual” lust; Dryden substituted homosexuality, catamitism , and impotency, alluding to William’s rumored sexual liaisons with his Dutch favorites.
page 80:
- Libanius’s invective against Philip successively despises barbarian origins in and of themselves, mocks dependency, rebukes failure to learn cultural values, snidely notes catamitism , drowns practical achievements in the immorality alleged to have won them, and further damns character with accounts of unproductive vice[.]
page 207:
- Caelius will never take the allegation of catamitism in his youth so hard…that is silly, for we cannot repent of things like good looks that are not of our causation.
page 175:
- Effeminacy…may not have been the quality that gave catamitism' its meaning; rather, ' catamitism …may have been the normative danger that qualified effeminacy as a threat to male heterosexual rule.