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Word Meanings - POLYPHAGY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

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  • PRACTICER
    1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
  • SUBSISTENCY
    Subsistence.
  • PRACTICED
    1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
  • SUBSISTENCE
    See HOOKER (more info) 1. Real being; existence. Not only the things had subsistence, but the very images were of some creatures existing. Stillingfleet. 2. Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in
  • PRACTICE
    A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
  • SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
    A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food
  • FACULTY
    The body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college. Dean of faculty. See under Dean. -- Faculty of advocates. See
  • SUBSIST
    sub under + sistere to stand, to cause to stand, from stare to stand: 1. To be; to have existence; to inhere. And makes what happiness we justly call, Subsist not in the good of one, but all. Pope. 2. To continue; to retain a certain state. Firm
  • SUBSISTENT
    1. Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit. 2. Inherent; as, qualities subsistent in matter.
  • UNDERFACULTY
    An inferior or subordinate faculty.
  • MALPRACTICE
    Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
  • MISPRACTICE
    Wrong practice.
  • MALEPRACTICE
    See MALPRACTICE

 

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