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experience(1) (iou)



experience noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French experience from Latin experientia, from experiri try: see -ENCE.]
a. The action of putting to the test, trial. LME-M17.
J. Shirley Make Experience of my loyalty, by some service.
b. A procedure carried out to test or demonstrate something; an experiment. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
Proof by actual trial; practical demonstration. obsolete exc. as passing into sense 3. LME.
Actual observation of or practical acquaintance with facts or events, considered as a source of knowledge. LME.
T. Reid Experience informs us only of what has been, but never of what must be.
A state, condition, or event that consciously affects one; the fact or process of being so affected. LME.
peak experience: see PEAK noun1 & adjective.
Ld Macaulay Both..had learned by experience how soon James forgot obligation. J. Barzun Boredom is not the trivial, harmless experience that common speech assumes. S. Barstow I'd never been involved in a wedding before..it's what you might call an experience.
b. A state of mind or feeling forming part of the inner religious life; a state or phase of religious emotion. L17.
The state of having been occupied in any branch of study or affairs; the extent or period of such an occupation; the aptitudes, skill, judgement, etc., thereby acquired. L15.
Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona His years but young, but his experience old. G. Gorer The belief that experience is unnecessary, because 'nature teaches'.
Knowledge resulting from actual observation or practical acquaintance, or from what one has undergone. M16.
J. Tyndall I had had but little experience of alpine phenomena. G. Greene My experience of diaries is they always give things away.
b. A fact, maxim, or rule based on experience; something expertly fashioned. L16-L17.
What has been experienced; the events that have taken place within the knowledge of an individual, a community, the human race, etc. E17.
A. P. Herbert In all her experience as a model. J. Heller To write about the Jewish experience in America.