• IPA: /ˈpɹæktɪk/

practic (plural practics)

1. A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

practic

1. (archaic) Practical.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , 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 […].

2. (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

• practise