practice (n.) Old form(s): practise
trickery, treachery
2H6 III.ii.22[King to all, of Gloucester] from true evidence ... / He be approved in practice culpable
Cym V.v.199[Iachimo to Cymbeline] my practice ... prevailed
H8 I.i.204.1[Buckingham to Norfolk] I shall perish / Under device and practice
Ham IV.vii.137[Claudius to Laertes] in a pass of practice
KL II.i.106[Gloucester to all, of Edmund and Edgar] He did bewray his practice
KL V.iii.149.2[Gonerill to Edmund] This is practice
MA IV.i.186[Benedick to Friar] The practice of it lives in John the Bastard
MM III.ii.262[disguised Duke alone] crimes, / Making practice on the times
MM V.i.107[Duke to Isabella, of Angelo] thou art suborned against his honour / In hateful practice
Oth V.ii.289[Lodovico to Othello] Fallen in the practice of a damned slave [or: sense 1]
TN V.i.350[Olivia to Malvolio] This practice hath most shrewdly passed upon thee
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