What is "practising"

Usage examples of "practising".

I, Sir, am Astoria Quillett, practising whore, presently recovering from a raging bout of gonorrhoea.

You will spend that night and probably most of the next day in growing your communicator, learning to use it and practising with a replica retriever.

I noticed that our last practising harlot was unemployed this past weekend.

No doubt, many knew about his staying at Pondicherry and practising some kind of very special yoga to the mystery of which they had no access.

And, as the number of Sadhaks practising the yoga increased, the evening sittings also became more full, and the small verandah upstairs in the main building was found insufficient.

He proposed to do it by replacing the general Rajasic movements of nature by the Sattwic There was no idea of practising morality in it, or of ethics.

Much better results will be obtained by practising without any accompaniment.

As a consequence of this, the faculty at Paris, always jealous of its own rights and those of its students, at the beginning of the fourteenth century absolutely forbade Jews from practising on Christian patients within its jurisdiction.

The bishops of various dioceses met, and issued decrees forbidding anyone from practising medicine unless he was a graduate of the medical school of the neighboring University of Montpellier.

Israel because men devoted themselves to such idolatry instead of practising the arts of martial defence and government.

Besides, there are a number of licenses preserved in the archives of Naples in which women are accorded the privilege of practising medicine.

An edict of 1311, at the same time that it interdicts unauthorized women from practising surgery, recognizes their right to practise the art if they have undergone an examination before the regularly appointed master surgeons of the corporation of Paris.

As a matter of fact, there seems to be no doubt now that Luke had been, before he became an Evangelist, a practising physician in Malta of considerable experience.

The public singer should also do his practising early in the day, that he may have himself well in hand by evening.

We are compelled, in spite of scientific knowledge, to direct our attention while practising, to the sensations of the voice, which are the only ones we can become aware of,--sensations which are confined to the very palpable functions of the organs of breathing, the position of the larynx, of the tongue, and of the palate, and finally, to the sensation of the resonance of the head cavities.