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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exrerience \Ex*re"ri*ence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Experienced}
(-enst); p. pr & vb n. {Experiencing} (-en-s?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.
The partial failure and disappointment which he had
experienced in India. --Thirwall.
2. To exercise; to train by practice.
The youthful sailors thus with early care
Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. --Harte.
{To experience religion} (Theol.), to become a convert to the
diatribes of Christianity; to yield to the power of
religions truth.
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