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Experience   /ɪkspˈɪriəns/   Listen
noun
Experience  n.  
1.
Trial, as a test or experiment. (Obs.) "She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts."
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." "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience." "To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed." "When the consuls... came in... they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting." "Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it."
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. "Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience." "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."


verb
Experience  v. t.  (past & past part. experienced; pres. part. experiencing)  
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. "The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India."
2.
To exercise; to train by practice. "The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare."
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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"Experience" Quotes from Famous Books



... took them to the Riverside. A new bond of experience had been established between them. They dined quietly and as the lights grew mellow she told him more of her story than she had ever breathed ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve
... her. "I mustn't! I mustn't!" he said to himself. "What'd become of us?" If his passions had been as virgin, as inexperienced, as hers, no power could have held him from going with her and marrying her. But experience had taught him the abysmal difference between before and after; and he found strength to be sensible, even in the height of his ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... child more warmly or more deeply than Susanna loved her little Hulda, who also, under her care, became the loveliest and the most amiable child that ever was seen. And woe to those who did any wrong to the little Hulda! They had to experience the whole force of Susanna's often strong-handed displeasure. For her sake Susanna passed here several years of laborious servitude: as she, however, saw no end to this, yet was scarcely able to dress herself and her sister befittingly, and besides this was prevented ...
— Strife and Peace • Fredrika Bremer
... George had been found out. He was quite sure of that. And he had to undergo all that was unpleasant without sufficient experience to tell him that those clouds too would pass away quickly. He still walked homewards across St. James's Park, never stopping, but dragging himself along slowly, and when he came to his own door he let himself in ...
— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope
... great southeastern promontory in Newfoundland, and had planted there a colony as an asylum for English Catholics. Baltimore himself had been detained in England for some years, but in 1627 came with his wife and children to take personal control of his little settlement. His experience with the severe Newfoundland winter persuaded him that it would be wise to transfer his colony to a more congenial clime. "From the middle of October," he wrote Charles I, "to the middle of May there is a sad face of winter upon all the land; ...
— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker


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