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The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.

nose during the act of swallowing; -- so called from Prof. Politzer of Vienna, who first practiced it.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.

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.

ols in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

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.

See Practice.

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner. The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical. Evelyn. We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions. Milton. Low, pragm…

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