Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making deductions from theory, especially from imperfect theory; theorizing. Also
theorical . - noun Theory; speculation; that which is theoretical.
- noun A treatise or part of a treatise containing scientific explanation of phenomena.
- Of or pertaining to public spectacles, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Speculation; theory.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the theorica.
- adjective obsolete Relating to, or skilled in, theory; theoretically skilled.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is life that we have here, the 'theoric' on the one side, the 'practic' on the other.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica
The OLM Blog 2009
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The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica
The OLM Blog » 45 Years of The New York Review of Books! 2008
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The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica
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Dasher is a writing system which uses information theoric concepts to allow the user to steer through an emerging web of possible word completions.
Archive 2007-05-01 Chris Jobling 2007
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Dasher is a writing system which uses information theoric concepts to allow the user to steer through an emerging web of possible word completions.
Dasher - writing with gestures Chris Jobling 2007
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I hope to publish soon a theoric paper on how it works.
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Parolles, the gallant militarist, — that was his own phrase, — that had the whole theoric of war in the knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of his dagger.
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Pish, I understand not the rhetoric (theoric, I should say), but I help myself somewhat by the practice.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Pish, I understand not the rhetoric (theoric, I should say), but I help myself somewhat by the practice.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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