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Definition of Experience
Ex`pe´ri`ence Pronunciation: ĕks`pē´rĭ`enst | n. | 1. | Trial, as a test or experiment. | | 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. | | 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. | | v. t. | 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. | | 2. | To exercise; to train by practice. |
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