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Practic vs Practick - What's the difference?

practic | practick |

As nouns the difference between practic and practick

is that practic is a person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory while practick is .

As an adjective practic

is (archaic) practical.

practic

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Practical.
  • *, II.i.4.3:
    • They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].
  • (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

    Derived terms

    * practical

    Related terms

    * practise

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    practick

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)