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The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

Pertaining to the Court of Inquisition or resembling its practices. "Inquisitorial robes." C. Buchanan.

ally for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.

; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

nterviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.

A method or practice of the administration of the sacrament by dipping the bread or wafer in the wine and administering both together.

To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol- fa.

Arts or practice of intrigue.

To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.

r accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.…

Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality.

The act or practice of itinerating; itinerancy.

A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty.

A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.

The act or practice of making jests; joking; pleasantry. Eph. v. 4.

The principles and practices of the Jesuits.

To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously. Congreve.

The act or practice of jobbing.

The act or practice of jesting. [Obs.]