Plural form of practice, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of practice

someone who practices a learned profession, A person who practices a profession or art, One who is engaged in the actual use or exercise of any art or profession, particularly that of law or medicine

Plural form of practitioner

Any small open space in a forest. See the extract, A meadow; level grassy land_ a word frequently used by Hennepin and other French writers in describing the country adjacent to the Mississippi river, and now in common use, designating the level or slightly undulating treeless areas which cover a large part of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and other States further south, a treeless grassy plain

Expression of approval, commendation, or admiration, The expression of any opinion, whether in commendation or otherwise; hence, fame; reputation, A ground or reason for praise, verb_ To give praise to, express approval of, transitive verb_ To express a feeling of veneration or gratitude to (a deity); worship or glorify, To express warm approval of, commendation for, or admiration for, To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts

To utter or address a prayer or prayers to a deity or an object of worship, often as an entreaty, To say (a prayer or group of prayers), I beg; I request; I entreat you; -- used in asking a question, making a request, introducing a petition, etc., transitive verb_ To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech, To effect or accomplish by praying, To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for, verb_ To humbly beg a person for aid or their time, religion to communicate with God for any reason, call upon in supplication; entreat, adverb_ please; used to make a polite request

A reverent petition made to God, a god, or another object of worship, A religious observance in which praying predominates, The request for relief by a party initiating a lawsuit, stated in the pleadings

Plural form of prayer

Before (something significant)

of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office, Going before; -- opposed to following, Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence, verb_ Present participle of precede