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Definitions of experience
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To come to know by personal trial or feeling. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
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To make practical acquaintance with; to try, or prove, by use, by suffering, or by enjoyment; to have happen to or befall one; as, we all experience pain, sorrow, and pleasure; we experience good and evil; we often experience a change of sentiments and views: to train by practice; to exercise. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
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To know by trial or endurance. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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To undergo personally; feel. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" Wordnet Dictionary DB
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To try by use, by suffering, or by enjoyment; to know by practice or trial; to suffer. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
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To be taught by practice or experiment; to know by trial. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
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an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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Trial, as a test or experiment. Webster Dictionary DB
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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. Webster Dictionary DB
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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. Webster Dictionary DB
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Personal trial and practice; knowledge gained by trial and practice; something lived through. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
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Trial, practice, proof, or test; esp. frequent trial or a series of trials; observation of a fact, or of the same fact or events happening under like circumstances; continued and varied observation; "Having broadly laid down the principle that all the materials of our knowledge come from experience, Locke goes on to explain his theory more particularly."-J. D. Morell: the knowledge gained by trial, or repeated trials, or observation; practical acquaintance with any matter by personal observation or trial of it, by feeling the effects of it, by living through it, and the like; practical wisdom taught by the changes and trials of life; "To most men experience is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."-Coleridge; individual or particular instance of trial or observation; "This is what distance does for us, the harsh and bitter features of this or that experience are slowly obliterated and memory begins to look on the past."- W. Black; "The like holds good with respect to the relations between sounds and vibrating objects which we learn only by a generalization of experiences."-H. Spencer: experiment. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
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Trial; knowledge gained by trial; result of observation. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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Knowledge derived from one's own action, perception, or endurance. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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The ascertained result of a series of trials or experiments; observation of a fact or of the same facts or events happening under like circumstances; what one has felt and learned by enjoying or suffering; knowledge derived from trials, use, practice, or a series of observations. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
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Knowledge gained by frequent trial or by experiment; practice; knowledge from observation. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
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Experiential. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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