Experience

Experience
Experience Ex*pe"ri*ence ([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*ens), n. [F. exp['e]rience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See {Peril}, and cf. {Expert}.] 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

2. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering. ``Guided by other's experiences.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster]

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. --P. Henry [1913 Webster]

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]

When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. --Holland. [1913 Webster]

Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]

3. An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war. [1913 Webster]

Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. --Sir J. Herschel. [1913 Webster]


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  • experience — Experience, Experimentum, Documentum, Res, Experientia. Experience et sçavoir, Gnaritas. Experience apporte tousjours quelque chose de nouveau, Res semper aliquid apportat noui. Avoir experience d une chose par soymesme, Ex se agnoscere. Ayant… …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • experience — EXPERIENCE. s. f. Espreuve qu on fait de quelque chose, soit à dessein, soit par hazard. Grande, curieuse, frequente experience. nouvelle experience. l experience est la maistresse des arts. je sçay cela par experience. j en ay fait l experience …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • experience — vb Experience, undergo, sustain, suffer are comparable when they mean to pass through the process of actually coming to know or to feel. Experience means little more than this. It implies that something (as a sensation, an emotion, or an… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Experience — Ex*pe ri*ence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Experienced} ([e^]ks*p[=e] r[i^]*enst); p. pr. & vb. n. {Experiencing} ([e^]ks*p[=e] r[i^]*en*s[i^]ng).] 1. To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • experience — I (background) noun acquaintance, adroitness, apprenticeship, cognizance, competence, competency, cosmopolitanism, education, empiricism, enlightenment, experientia. expertise, expertness, familiarity, instruction, judgment, ken, know how,… …   Law dictionary

  • experience — [ek spir′ē əns, ikspir′ē əns] n. [ME < OFr < L experientia, trial, proof, experiment < experiens, prp. of experiri, to try, test: see PERIL] 1. the act of living through an event or events; personal involvement in or observation of… …   English World dictionary

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