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Pratique   Listen
noun
Pratique  n.  
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."





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"Pratique" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Crache-au-nez-d'la-Mort" was in high popularity with his comrades; and had said but the truth when he averred that he had never been so happy as under the tricolor. The officers pronounced him an incurably audacious "pratique"; he was always in mischief, and the regimental rules he broke through like a terrier through a gauze net; but they knew that when once the trumpets sounded Boot and Saddle, this yellow-haired dare-devil of an English fellow would be worth ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... de deux sortes, la blanche et la noire. La premire est trs sainte et se pratique journellement ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... Duke, where I heard a large discourse between one that goes over an agent from the King to Legorne and thereabouts, to remove the inconveniences his ships are put to by denial of pratique; which is a thing that is now-a-days made use of only as a cheat, for a man may buy a bill of health for a piece of eight, and my enemy may agree with the Intendent of the Sante for ten pieces of eight or so, that he shall not give me a bill of health, and so spoil me in my design, ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys
... Ozinde. Pratique de l'ortographe et de la pronunciation de la langue franoise. ALondres, chez Henry ...
— The Library of William Congreve • John C. Hodges
... aussi l'humanite est tenue d'avoir une morale plus severe a mesure qu'elle prend plus de siecles.—FAGUET, Revue des Deux Mondes, 1894, iii. 871. Si donc il y a une loi de progres, elle se confond avec la loi morale, et la condition fondamentale du progres, c'est la pratique de cette loi.—CARRAU, Ib. 1875, v. 585. L'idee du progres, du developpement, me parait etre l'idee fondamentale continue sous le mot de civilisation.—GUIZOT, Cours d'Histoire, 1828, 15. Le progres n'est sous un autre nom, ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton


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