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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.]
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She caused him to make experience
Upon wild beasts. --Spenser.
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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.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and
that is the lamp of experience. --P. Henry
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a
ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
--Coleridge.
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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.
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Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon
his preaching, had no experience of it. --Sharp.
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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.
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Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and
knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from
experience. --Locke.
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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.
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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 have the lot
or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to
feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience
poverty; to experience a change of views.
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The partial failure and disappointment which he had
experienced in India. --Thirwall.
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2. To exercise; to train by practice.
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The youthful sailors thus with early care
Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. --Harte.
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{To experience religion} (Theol.), to become a convert to the
doctrines of Christianity; to yield to the power of
religious truth.
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