practive

English

Etymology

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Adjective

practive (comparative more practive, superlative most practive)

1. (obsolete) active, or practical
   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “(please specify the page)”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:

     You take your Prisiner for a practive man

Derived terms

• practively

Related terms

• practice
• praxis

References

• “practive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.