practice Copy link Outline I. Actual employment or experience1. ūsus, ūs2. exercĭtātio3. tractātioII. CustomIII. Exercise of any professionIV. Only in pl. = course of conduct; esp. of an underhand or reprehensible natureV. Actual doing • practice: I. Actual employment or experience: 1. ūsus, ūs: the p. of speaking (opp. theory), loquendi u. (opp. scientia), Cic. Or. 48, 160. Oft. with a syn.: e. g. usus ac tractatio [dicendi], id. Off. 1, 18, 60; usus exercitatioque, id. Div. Verr. 15, init. 2. exercĭtātio: the arts and (constant) p. of virtue, artes et exercitationes virtutum, id. Sen. 3, 9. Join: exercitatio ususque [dicendi], id. Coel. 22, 54. (N.B.--Usus is the word of wider extent.) 3. tractātio: with usus: v. supr. See also experience. II. Custom: consuētūdo: the inhuman p. of human sacrifices, immanis c. hominum immolandorum, Cic. Font. 10, 21: it is not my usual p., non est c. meae, id. Rab. perd. init. To get into the p. of doing something, insuescere, consuescere: v. to accustom oneself. III. Exercise of any profession: Phr.: to have an extensive p. as a barrister, *multas causas actitare; in foro multum versari: he had a large p. as a physician, *medicus erat praecipuae celebritatis. IV. Only in pl. = course of conduct; esp. of an underhand or reprehensible nature: artes: cf. Sall. Cat. 2, med. (imperium facile his artibus retinetur quibus initio partum est): so, id. 3, malae artes: to be guilty of corrupt p.s (in law), jura et exempla corrumpere, Cic.: v. to tamper with. V. Actual doing: usu. not to be expr.: to gain fame by the p. of justice, clemency, etc., *justitiâ, clementiâ nomen famamque consequi, etc.