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One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge.

husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.

The art or practice of using a polygraph.

One who practices or advocates polygyny. H. Spenser.

The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives. H. Spenser.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

The act or practice of prescribing too many medicines.

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

The art or practice of making portraits. Walpole.

In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo- impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impre…

The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.

That may be practiced or performed; capable of being done or accomplished with available means or resources; feasible; as, a practicable method; a practicable aim; a practicable good.

Of or pertaining to practice or action.

By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.

One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.

Practice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Practice.

laudation; approbation. There are men who always confound the praise of goodness with the practice. Rambler.

Practice; habits. [Obs.] "One of English education and pratique." R. North.