forepractice

Prior or previous practice; a practice or technique applied in advance.

Noun

  1. Prior or previous practice; a practice or technique applied in advance.
    • 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. - 1918, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind....
    • In my case, I usually shoot with no forepractice and often with only one eye—the kinoeye, as Vertov called it. - 2005, Thi Minh-Ha Trinh, The Digital Film Event:
    • 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 [...] - 2012, Lonchen Rabjam, Natural Perfection:...

Origin

From fore- + practice.

Forms

forepractices