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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• practise:
    1. I. To exercise:
      1. 1. exerceo, 2: to p. rhetoric, rhetoricen ex., Quint. 2, 1. 3: to p. oneself in extemporary speech, ex. se in subitis dictionibus, Cic. de Or. 1. 33, 152: v. to exercise.
      2. 2. tracto, 1 (to deal much with): to p. an art, artem t., Ter. Ph. prol. 17.
    2. II. To do habitually:
      1. 1. factĭto, 1: these things were p.d in the time of our ancestors, haec apud majores nostros factitata, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 85.
      2. 2. cĕlebro, 1 (to engage in frequently or regularly): a kind of divination p.d both in public and private, genus divinationis publice privatimque celebratum, Cic. Div. 1, 2, init.: cf. de Or. 1, init., artes celebrare atque recolere. Phr.: to p. what one preaches, quae quis doceat in usu habere, Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 11.
    3. III. To pursue a calling:
      1. 1. făcio, 3: to p. the calling of a soothsayer, haruspicinam f., Cic. Fam. 6, 18. Also frequent. factĭto, 1: to p. physic, medicinam f., Quint. 7, 2, 26: Phaedr.
      2. 2. exerceo, 2: to p. physic, medicinam ex., Cic. Clu. 63, extr. Phr.: to p. as a pleader, causas agere, actitare (v. to plead, II.): not to be allowed to p., *a foro removeri.
    4. IV. To go carefully over a lesson: mĕdĭtor, 1: v. to study.