forepractice
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editforepractice (countable and uncountable, plural forepractices)
- Prior or previous practice; a practice or technique applied in advance.
- 1918, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Department of Research, Publications:
- The small sheet is used as forepractice, to assist the pupils in understanding the mechanism of the test. The large sheets contain the test material.
- 2005, Thi Minh-Ha Trinh, The Digital Film Event:
- In my case, I usually shoot with no forepractice and often with only one eye—the kinoeye, as Vertov called it.
- 2012, Lonchen Rabjam, Natural Perfection: Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen:
- Any kind of preparation or forepractice muddies the waters in its assumption of a goal to be reached. Access to the clarity and the Zing of reality, on the contrary [...]