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The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.

of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." Cowley. 'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry. Sir T. Browne.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

One who advocates or practices infant baptism. [Written also pædobaptist.]

Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.

The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship. Persecution produces no sincere conviction. Paley.

elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.

A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.

The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles. Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. Barrow.

Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.] "Pharisean disciples." Milton.

The art or practice of preparing and preserving drugs, and of compounding and dispensing medicines according to prescriptions of physicians; the occupation of an apothecary or a pharmaceutical chemist.

One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others.

One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life; one who lives according to the rules of practical wisdom; one who meets or regards all vicissitudes with calmness.

Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry. Carlyle.

Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry. [R.]

Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy. Then had he spent all his philosophy. Chaucer.

One who practiced phlebotomy.

The act or practice of opening a vein for letting blood, in the treatment of disease; venesection; bloodletting.

To practice photography; to take photographs.