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Definition
capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are
or more rarely:
usable for a specific purpose
or more rarely:
usable for a specific purpose
- The Bureau invited continued cooperation with benevolent societies, and declared: "It will be the object of all commissioners to introduce practicable systems of compensated labor," and to establish schools.Chapter 2 (37% in)
- This the missionaries of '68 soon saw; and if effective industrial and trade schools were impracticable before the establishment of a common-school system, just as certainly no adequate common schools could be founded until there were teachers to teach them.Chapter 6 (39% in)
- In all cases the aim was identical,—to maintain the standards of the lower training by giving teachers and leaders the best practicable training; and above all, to furnish the black world with adequate standards of human culture and lofty ideals of life.Chapter 6 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "practicable" in The Souls of Black Folk.
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