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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
practice
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a code of practice/conduct/ethics (=rules for people in a particular profession or business)
▪ There is a strict code of conduct for doctors.
a practice session
▪ He crashed during a practice session before this Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.
accepted practice
▪ Having more than one wife is a normal and accepted practice in some countries.
an age-old tradition/practice/custom etcBritish English
▪ age-old customs
best practice
established practice (=a particular way of doing something, that is accepted as the best way)
▪ Not allowing patients to eat before surgery is established practice.
exam practice
▪ Schools say they have to spend too much time doing exam practice.
family practice
general practice
group practice
piano practice
▪ Have you done your piano practice?
private practice
▪ Richard set up in private practice.
restrictive practices
standard practice/procedure (=the usual way of doing things)
▪ Searching luggage at airports is now standard practice.
teaching practiceBritish English, student teaching American English (= a period of teaching done by someone who is training to be a teacher)
▪ There were 90 hours of teaching practice, of which 20 were supervised.
work practices
▪ She supported me enthusiastically in bringing in new work practices.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clinical
▪ Is clinical practice supervised and formally assessed before course completion?
▪ How much control of clinical practice should be included in the monitoring schemes?
▪ Measurement of the albumin excretion rate requires an accurately timed collection of urine, which is difficult in routine clinical practice.
▪ Patients treated with triple therapy, however, complain of considerable side effects which endangers compliance in routine clinical practice.
▪ In clinical practice grommet insertion may be performed for a number of different indications apart from hearing loss.
▪ His monument in clinical practice was the model child guidance service in the then Borough of West Ham.
▪ Modern routine clinical practice however offers something of a dilution of the original Jacobsonian relaxation techniques.
current
▪ Teachers who use these books can draw on the banks of ideas they provide to extend and diversify their current practice.
▪ This approach tends to preserve previous spending patterns because planned expenditure is based on historical and current practice.
▪ The compulsory and emergency nature of the initial admission, however, is no different from the trend in current practice.
▪ First, however, consideration must be given to the other major approach to assessment that informs current practice.
▪ We begin therefore by considering our current practice, and then looking at how the National Curriculum fits in.
▪ There are obviously many questions to ask in matching current practice with the new programmes.
▪ The way that university library budgets are calculated is changing, and there is no reliable overview of current practice.
general
▪ Preventative medicine should be practised in every general practice surgery in the country.
▪ I spent more time with the law, along with family, in a general, small practice.
▪ The model that we have developed is to attach students in pairs to a general practice tutor in a teaching practice.
▪ The second phase would be carried out by the dispersal of nurses and psychologists into general practice surgeries and day hospitals.
▪ However, his prospects then are better than in general practice.
▪ Editor, - Renewed interest in the activities and professional training of counsellors in general practice is welcome.
▪ Nor was this general practice in Abraham's tie.
▪ This approach would have to be aimed primarily at general practice.
good
▪ Education minister Estelle Morris has persuaded the company to work with 50 beacon schools to spread best practice.
▪ The Centre will develop scenarios on emerging international markets in services, establish a database and produce company cases recording best practice.
▪ It is good practice to make a note of the client's telephone number on the file.
▪ Family health services authorities should foster good practice by disseminating information.
▪ This might well be good practice in the county court.
▪ Whatever the degree of response finally obtained it is good practice to investigate possible non-randomness and hence bias.
▪ Provided such views are informed by good practice teachers should remain confident of their own expertise.
▪ The first example is the view that it is good primary practice to have children working in groups.
legal
▪ No doubt many fewer laymen are aware of the parallel legal practice of precedent.
▪ I am now looking forward to applying this experience in the context of a legal practice.
▪ Strict conventionalism fails as an interpretation of our legal practice even when especially when - we emphasize its negative part.
▪ Bill padding has become so endemic to legal practice that it is generally regarded as a joke.
▪ So unilateralism is not even a remotely eligible interpretation of our legal conduct and practice.
▪ What happened next is significant to people who are familiar with law enforcement and legal practice in Dallas.
▪ Conveyancing is an area of legal practice where there is traditionally some degree of co-operation between practitioners.
▪ I follow a basic rule of legal practice: Establish the price, get the money, then go to work.
medical
▪ In the 1660s and 1670s Coxe established a successful medical practice in London.
▪ Efforts were made to curb unlicensed medical practice and to improve the standards of that profession.
▪ This duty to disclose is not limited by medical practice, it is set by law.
▪ The Moniz medical practice was disrupted by demonstrators opposed to psychosurgery.
▪ Modern medical practice, particularly with older people, has many shortcomings about which the counsellor needs to be aware.
▪ The parties were partners in a general medical practice in central London.
▪ Assessing standards and comparing outcomes are important in medical practice and allow comparison of different units and appropriate allocation of resources.
normal
▪ The management of Disinfection Disinfection in normal practice presents a challenge to management.
▪ But the new law failed to change normal practice, and such cases remained rare.
▪ The normal practice is to appoint a Cabinet of fifteen to twenty-five members.
▪ I gather this is normal practice but I find it a little unreasonable.
▪ Motorcycles would be kept out by barriers at each end - this is normal practice for cycle/pedestrian paths.
▪ It is normal practice for the vendor to disclose various documents to the purchaser as part of the disclosure exercise.
▪ Ingle was kept in a sedated coma, normal practice in such cases.
▪ Live plucking was normal practice by the commoners, in order to ensure quills of the best quality.
private
▪ Instead of going into private practice, or after some years of practice, the solicitor may seek an appointment.
▪ Even after he left government for private practice, Quinn was able to reach Holder on the telephone.
▪ Articles which are available in commerce or industry may well include a period in private practice.
▪ The study was of 482 children who were cared for by a private pediatric practice in suburban Philadelphia.
▪ This latter point was supported by a small number of respondents from private practice.
▪ Daley had, in fact, only recently gone into private practice with his friend Lynch.
▪ Solicitors and barristers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive.
▪ Registered dietitians can be located through hospitals and clinics, and many are in private practice.
professional
▪ In addition many courses involve periods of unpaid professional practice and work experience within the academic year.
▪ For each professional within the practice a training programme should be devised.
▪ These courses are strongly orientated towards industry and professional practice.
▪ The only reason for defining abuse is to ensure that incidents are identified and reduced by good professional and managerial practice.
▪ Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice.
▪ The Sub-Committee continued its review of the professional practice examination system.
▪ The procedures adopted on enquiries are a complete contrast to those in professional practice.
▪ Incentives Payment by results is a dangerous area in a professional practice.
social
▪ She reviews the philosophies that have shaped the acquisition of knowledge and skill development in social group work practice.
▪ This reflects many of the factors already discussed about the development of social work practice with old people.
▪ The chapter concludes with some examples of how insights gained from psychotherapy can be useful in social work practice.
▪ Many support activities utilized traditional social work skills and were indistinguishable from much social work practice.
▪ Lukács claimed that labour became the model for any social practice.
▪ How many other aspects of social work practice could benefit from a fundamental reappraisal of guiding philosophies?
▪ It is particularly appropriate for social work practice with vulnerable elderly people.
▪ Communication is a social practice and even if systematic distortion is removed, existential determination is not.
standard
▪ Bail conditions appear also to have become a standard practice in public order cases.
▪ But fee waiving is standard practice among money funds.
▪ This is standard practice, but such an event is unlikely.
▪ This, I learned, was standard practice when a customer was about to be sacrificed for the greater good of Salomon.
▪ The first is the wide variation in specification and finish that are standard practice in the motor industry.
▪ Such abbreviated language is standard practice and will be widely adopted in the remainder of this book.
▪ This was, in fact, standard practice and Barratt was fully aware of it.
▪ Philip Redfern suggested it should become standard practice for statisticians to put their professional advice on the record.
■ NOUN
classroom
▪ There are also extensive entries on classroom practice, teaching methods, the language laboratory and the psychology of learning.
▪ It sought continually to encourage teachers to reevaluate classroom practice - both in curriculum content and methodology.
▪ Nor did everyone see the need for an update on current classroom practice.
▪ The great majority of practitioners proclaimed their belief in the only way they could - through sound classroom practice.
▪ The desire is rarely reflected in classroom practice.
▪ How many of them led to changes in classroom practice?
▪ First, it is clear that the way classroom practice is defined and talked about must change.
▪ Details of different methods of using the program and examples of classroom practice will be helpful.
target
▪ It is merely target practice using live targets.
▪ He knew that on these streets young kids with guns used people on the sidewalks for target practice.
▪ Firstly in a country full of guns it doesn't do to stand there asking to become target practice.
▪ A downtown establishment has always made for satisfying target practice.
▪ After sundown, a bit of target practice on the estate, using his collection of sophisticated weapons.
▪ For the cynics of the world, Philip Gould is easy target practice.
▪ It ensured that no trigger-happy missile controller would fail to observe the safety precautions and attempt a little target practice.
▪ Prisoners taken were blinded, mutilated, dragged behind the hooves of horses and used as target practice by archers.
teaching
▪ Term 5 contains a block teaching practice, and thus the course has a programme allocation of five weeks.
▪ Parental involvement is crucial, both in terms of political campaigning and in terms of developing relevant language teaching practice.
▪ The model that we have developed is to attach students in pairs to a general practice tutor in a teaching practice.
▪ This effectively reduces the teaching practice experience to years four and six.
▪ Students are invited to undertake a programme combining, concurrently, the traditional teaching practice with a social work placement.
▪ It is easy to understand the excitement that such new teaching practice could generate.
▪ I expect that I shall think of the term's work as a preparation for the second teaching practice.
▪ They had 100 hours and 120 hours of teaching practice respectively.
work
▪ The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.
▪ She reviews the philosophies that have shaped the acquisition of knowledge and skill development in social group work practice.
▪ This reflects many of the factors already discussed about the development of social work practice with old people.
▪ The chapter concludes with some examples of how insights gained from psychotherapy can be useful in social work practice.
▪ Many support activities utilized traditional social work skills and were indistinguishable from much social work practice.
▪ How many other aspects of social work practice could benefit from a fundamental reappraisal of guiding philosophies?
▪ It is particularly appropriate for social work practice with vulnerable elderly people.
▪ Investigative child protection interviews are one of the most challenging areas of social work practice.
■ VERB
accept
▪ It was accepted as a general practice that children would be better educated in the sending country after the age of seven.
▪ Process assessments compare the documented care with what is accepted as optimum practice based on current scientific nutrition knowledge and expert opinion.
▪ Secondly, I find it impossible to accept that general practice is a specialty.
▪ I realized in my reaction to all this how Westernized I had become, for this was very much an accepted practice.
▪ Hayek accepts the primacy of practice in the construction of human knowledge.
▪ So we recommend that advance notification of commission should come to be accepted as good trading practice.
follow
▪ Ashore, Stan Weatherall and Peter Harris followed the general practice in a beach-head: lending a hand where they could.
▪ A rather typical instance of the way such fears develop can be seen in the following incidents from our practice.
▪ They can either follow customary practice and offer cash buyers a discount or charge the credit card buyer a surcharge.
▪ Classes will be held daily from 8 to 10 p. m., followed by practice at local tango bars until midnight.
▪ In choosing not to call the police but to take action himself, Mr Waller was following an escalating practice in Britain.
▪ Where there is only one accepted practice, then following this practice will not amount to negligence.
put
▪ It's time to put his theories into practice and find out the reality.
▪ Make a habit of putting your AH-HAs into practice as soon as possible alter reading them.
▪ Anyway, you can't dismiss the experimental method just because some irrational people choose not to put the findings into practice.
▪ While the federal policy shift began a decade ago, forest managers have been slow to put it into practice.
▪ Many variations on the combination theme can be put into practice.
▪ If so, he was about to have an opportunity to put it into practice.
▪ How they were put into practice is discussed in Chapter Three.
teach
▪ As with other subject areas of the course, electronic publishing is taught through theory and practice.
▪ Like Zen meditation, sensory awareness is not a teaching but a practice....
▪ On teaching practice the students operated quite differently from what would have happened under the old system.
▪ There are still people out there who teach and practice fair play, sportsmanship, and competition.
▪ He was a slightly-built student called Abdulla, here on teaching practice.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
common practice
▪ Today it is common practice to let children choose their own topics for writing.
put sth into action/effect/practice
▪ Forest managers have been slow to put the plan into practice.
▪ But he came gradually to see its viability and to contemplate ways of putting it into practice.
▪ But there is a long way to go before he establishes a stable government that can put these qualities into action.
▪ Charles, however, was determined to use the farm at Highgrove as a model to put his ideas into practice.
▪ Guide us to recognise how great are your resources, and inspire us to put your plans into action.
▪ If so, he was about to have an opportunity to put it into practice.
▪ It's time to put his theories into practice and find out the reality.
▪ The next stage is to implement it or put it into action.
▪ The next step is to put them into practice.
sharp practice
▪ His grandfather had made a fortune out of a piece of commercial sharp practice in the 19th century.
▪ We couldn't discover anything specific, but there was definitely some sharp practice going on.
▪ Any kind of sharp practice or dishonest dealing will infallibly ruin his career.
▪ At times these adjustments verge on sharp practice enabled by the fact that ingredients do not have to be revealed.
▪ But trams also had to face some sharp practice from competing bus companies.
▪ In it he mentions several examples of sharp practice in the laboratory, one or two of which are new to me.
▪ Recognising sharp practice in their dealers from the outset, they would be less likely to blame them for huge losses.
working practices/methods
▪ But it will coincide with political pressure for doctors to accept fundamental changes in their working practices.
▪ However, only 44% had changed their working practices.
▪ New working practices would be introduced once passenger services were privatised which would be more flexible.
▪ The accident happened because of a culture in which working practices were not checked, Whitehaven magistrates heard.
▪ The courses, examinations and working practices have been based on their perceptions.
▪ Their work allowed them to identify working methods and the characteristics of particular ateliers.
▪ Those familiar with the work and working methods of Frank Auerbach may find all this oddly familiar.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Are you going to choir practice?
▪ Doctors want to educate teenagers about unsafe sexual practices.
▪ During the summer, the team has two practices a day.
▪ I scored two goals at hockey practice tonight.
▪ I try and get some practice in before classes.
▪ soccer practice
▪ the religious beliefs and practices of Hindus
▪ There are only three more practices before the concert.
▪ You're getting better - you just need a little more practice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond that, everything else is essentially a context-specific attempt to put those few universal principles into practice.
▪ He earned this disputable title by his thoughtful approach to critical issues and the undeniable distinction of his critical practice.
▪ In practice, the student will necessarily miss some continuity because of days off and night duty.
▪ One has to distinguish between the individual and the practice.
▪ Secondly, while it wishes pupils to experience freedom, in practice it is easy for the teacher to determine the structure.
▪ Stark said as we stood on the practice putting green of the Crieff Golf Club.
▪ This approach flies in the face of established practice.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Practice

Practice \Prac"tice\, n. [OE. praktike, practique, F. pratique, formerly also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? practical. See Practical, and cf. Pratique, Pretty.]

  1. Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.

    A heart . . . exercised with covetous practices.
    --2 Pet. ii. 14.

  2. Customary or constant use; state of being used.

    Obsolete words may be revived when they are more sounding or more significant than those in practice.
    --Dryden.

  3. Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness. [R.] ``His nice fence and his active practice.''
    --Shak.

  4. Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.

    There are two functions of the soul, -- contemplation and practice.
    --South.

    There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice; each, to a certain extent, supposes the other; theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

  5. Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.

  6. Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.

    Practice is exercise of an art, or the application of a science in life, which application is itself an art.
    --Sir W. Hamilton.

  7. Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

    He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  8. (Math.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.

  9. (Law) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
    --Bouvier.

    Syn: Custom; usage; habit; manner.

Practice

Practice \Prac"tice\, v. i. [Often written practise.]

  1. To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.

  2. To learn by practice; to form a habit.

    They shall practice how to live secure.
    --Milton.

    Practice first over yourself to reign.
    --Waller.

  3. To try artifices or stratagems.

    He will practice against thee by poison.
    --Shak.

  4. To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.

    [I am] little inclined to practice on others, and as little that others should practice on me.
    --Sir W. Temple.

Practice

Practice \Prac"tice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Practiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Practicing.] [Often written practise, practised, practising.]

  1. To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. ``Incline not my heart . . . practice wicked works.''
    --Ps. cxli. 4.

  2. To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.

    2. To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.

    4. To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do. ``Aught but Talbot's shadow whereon to practice your severity.''
    --Shak.

    As this advice ye practice or neglect.
    --Pope.

    5. To make use of; to employ. [Obs.]

    In malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her.
    --Massinger.

    6. To teach or accustom by practice; to train.

    In church they are taught to love God; after church they are practiced to love their neighbor.
    --Landor.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
practice

c.1400, "to do, act;" early 15c., "to follow or employ; to carry on a profession," especially medicine, from Old French pratiser, practiser "to practice," alteration of practiquer, from Medieval Latin practicare "to do, perform, practice," from Late Latin practicus "practical," from Greek praktikos "practical" (see practical).\n

\nFrom early 15c. as "to perform repeatedly to acquire skill, to learn by repeated performance;" mid-15c. as "to perform, to work at, exercise." Related: Practiced; practicing.

practice

early 15c., practise, "practical application," originally especially of medicine but also alchemy, education, etc.; from Old French pratiser, from Medieval Latin practicare (see practice (v.)). From early 15c. often assimilated in spelling to nouns in -ice. Also as practic, which survived in parallel into 19c.

Wiktionary
practice

n. 1 repetition of an activity to improve skill. 2 (context uncountable English) The ongoing pursuit of a craft or profession, particularly in medicine or the fine arts. 3 (context countable English) A place where a professional service is provided, such as a general practice. 4 The observance of religious duties that a church requires of its members. 5 A customary action, habit, or behaviour; a manner or routine. 6 Actual operation or experiment, in contrast to theory. 7 (context legal English) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. 8 Skilful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; stratagem; artifice. 9 (context math English) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. vb. 1 (context transitive US English) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity. 2 (context intransitive US English) To repeat an activity in this way. 3 (context transitive US English) To perform or observe in a habitual fashion.

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WordNet
practice

  1. n. a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern" [syn: pattern]

  2. systematic training by multiple repetitions; "practice makes perfect" [syn: exercise, drill, practice session, recitation]

  3. translating an idea into action; "a hard theory to put into practice"; "differences between theory and praxis of communism" [syn: praxis]

  4. the exercise of a profession; "the practice of the law"; "I took over his practice when he retired"

  5. knowledge of how something is usually done; "it is not the local practice to wear shorts to dinner"

practice

  1. v. learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales" [syn: drill, exercise, practise]

  2. avail oneself to; "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance" [syn: apply, use]

  3. carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions; "practice law" [syn: practise, exercise, do]

  4. engage in a rehearsal (of) [syn: rehearse, practise]

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Wikipedia
Practice

Practice may refer to:

  • Practice (social theory), a theoretical term for human action in society
  • Best practice
  • Medical practice, a company which engages in the practise of medicine
  • Phantom practice, phenomenon in which a person's abilities continue to improve, even without practising
  • Spiritual practice
  • Standards and Practices, a conventional, traditional, or otherwise standardised method
Practice (learning method)

Practice is the act of rehearsing a behavior over and over, or engaging in an activity again and again, for the purpose of improving or mastering it, as in the phrase "practice makes perfect". Sports teams practice to prepare for actual games. Playing a musical instrument well takes a lot of practice. It is a method of learning and of acquiring experience. The word derives from the Greek "πρακτική" (praktike), feminine of "πρακτικός" (praktikos), "fit for or concerned with action, practical", and that from the verb "πράσσω" (prasso), "to achieve, bring about, effect, accomplish". In American English, practice is used as both a noun and a verb, but in British English, there is a distinction between practice, used as a noun, and practise, used as a verb (see spelling differences).

Sessions scheduled for the purpose of rehearsing and performance improvement are called practices. They are engaged in by sports teams, bands, individuals, etc. "He went to football practice every day after school", for example

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Usage examples of "practice".

Weavers had been responsible for the practice of killing Aberrant children for more than a hundred years.

The opposition also maintained that such a practice of raising troops was contrary to the oath of coronation, and that all who subscribed were abettors of perjury.

Foreign intervention, openly invited and industriously instigated by the abettors of the insurrection, became imminent, and has only been prevented by the practice of strict and impartial justice, with the most perfect moderation, in our intercourse with nations.

That during the existing insurrection, and as a necessary measure for suppressing the same, all rebels and insurgents, their aiders and abettors within the United States, and all persons discouraging volunteer enlistments, resisting militia drafts, or guilty of any disloyal practice affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, shall be subject to martial law, and liable to trial and punishment by courts-martial or military commissions.

Every abomination and sacrilege that is conceivable has been practiced.

And, again, there is no reference to aborting a fetus, which was a known practice at the time.

Collier absconded, and published a vindication of their conduct, in which he affirmed that the imposition of hands was the general practice of the primitive church.

We therefore had to practice abseiling into I the jungle and getting in all the emergency equipment that would be needed.

Similarly, the Iraqis have always had abysmal maintenance practices, and an operational readiness rate of 65 percent is the norm in many combat units.

There was not an archer in Achar who could better them now, Belial mused, as he watched them practice hitting moving targets while at the gallop.

Whether this acidity should be reported in terms of the lime or of the soda required to neutralise it will depend on which of these reagents is to be used in the actual practice.

Imbs was practicing his complicated piece, the so-called adagio, and the machinist, with a manipulation of the black switch box, had turned off all the machines for the time required to go through the piece three times.

It is clumsy in practice, for the continued adding of small portions of salt solution is laborious and becomes impossible with more than a few milligrams of silver in solution.

Church, not with speculations, but by demanding adherence to the old practice with regard to lapsed members.

A parallel ambivalence pervades both practice and adjudication under the Constitution from the beginning.