theoretics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of theoretics
1650–60; theoret(ic) ( see theoretical) + -ics
Example Sentences
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You, a master of books, by all the sea-blood in your body should be able to pick up the theoretics of navigation while I snap my fingers.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
In the patristic writings, theoretics assume continually an increasingly disproportionate value.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by John William Burgon
They mean the actual progress of the race in tangible items of daily living and not the theoretics of barren disputation.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
Secretly, however, he studied navigation, and it was Margaret’s delight when he sat by the kitchen fire, and, despite their master’s tickets, tangled up his brothers in the theoretics of their profession.
From The Strength of the Strong by Jack London
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