Word Meanings - PRAXIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object. "The praxis and theory of music." Wood. 2. An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.

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• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• PRAXIS
  1. Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object. "The praxis and theory of music." Wood. 2. An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• 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.
• DISCIPLINER
  One who disciplines.
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• EXAMPLESS
  Exampleless. B. Jonson.
• OBJECTIVITY
  The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first
• GERM THEORY
  The theory that living organisms can be produced only by the development of living germs. Cf. Biogenesis, Abiogenesis. 2. The theory which attributes contagious and infectious diseases, suppurative lesions, etc., to the agency of germs.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.