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   Experience , n. [F. expérience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert.]
   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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   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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   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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experienced ; p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing .]
    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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   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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