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Word Meanings - HUMBUGGERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The practice of imposition.

Related words: (words related to HUMBUGGERY)

  • 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.
  • PRACTICED
    1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
  • 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;
  • IMPOSITION
    An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. T. Warton. 4. An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. Reputation is an idle and most
  • 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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