practised, ppl. a.
(ˈpræktɪst)
[f. practise v. + -ed1.]
1. That has had practice; experienced, expert, skilled, proficient. (See also practise v. 6 b.)
| 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 507 A companie of warlike and practised souldiours. 1638 Mayne Lucian (1664) 332 Your Art, of which you seem to be so practised a master. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxii. IV. 714 To the practised eyes of the Kentish fishermen she looked much like a French privateer. 1871 Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) I. vi. 209 My practised men fastened the sail at the top. |
2. Executed or gone through beforehand in order to acquire proficiency in performance.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. v. i. 97, I haue seene them shiuer and looke pale,..Throttle their practiz'd accent in their feares. 1611 ― Wint. T. i. ii. 116 Making practis'd Smiles As in a Looking-Glasse. |
† 3. Habitually used or frequented; accustomed.
| 1654–66 Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 658 He led us into a less practis'd walk. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 945 To serve thir Lord..with songs to hymne his Throne, And practis'd distances to cringe, not fight. |
† 4. (app.) Plotted against, made the object of conspiracy. Obs. rare—1.
| 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. x. lv. (1612) 245 Throckmorton yeat, more priuie and more practising than those,..Did mischiefes that imported more our practiz'd State disclose. |
Hence ˈpractisedness, the quality or fact of being practised or experienced.
| 1883 J. Purves in Contemp. Rev. Sept. 352 Honesty he ascribes to practisedness in the world's ways. |