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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Experience \Ex*pe"ri*ence\, n. [F. exp['e]rience, L. experientia, tr experiens, ?entis, p. pr of experiri expertus to try ex out + the root of pertus experienced. See {Peril}, and cf {Expert}.] 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. --Spenser. 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. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. --P. Henry To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. --Coleridge. 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. Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it --Sharp. 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. --Locke. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: experience n 1: the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher" [ant: {inexperience}] 2: the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recallled the experience vividly" 3: an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" v 1: go or live through "We had many trials to go through" [syn: {undergo}, {go through}] 2: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!" "have you ever known hunger?" [syn: {know}, {live}] 3: of mental or bodily states or experiences: "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "undergo a strange sensation"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: {receive}, {have}, {get}, {undergo}] 4: undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" [syn: {feel}] 5: undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" [syn: {have}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink
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