practise

1. (transitive) To repeat (an activity) as a way of improving one's skill in that activity.Examples: "You should practise playing piano every day."transitive

2. (intransitive) To repeat an activity in this way.Examples: "If you want to speak French well, you need to practise."intransitive

3. (transitive) To perform or observe in an habitual fashion.Examples: "They gather to practise religion every Saturday."; "Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]"; "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair."transitive

4. (transitive) To pursue (a career, especially law, fine art or medicine).Examples: "She practised law for forty years before retiring."transitive

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To conspire.intransitiveobsolete