EXPERIENCED
experienced, experient
(adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
experienced (comparative more experienced, superlative most experienced)
Having experience and skill in a subject.
Experient.
Synonyms
• See also experienced
Antonyms
• inexperienced
• green
Verb
experienced
past participle of experience
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*pe"ri*enced (-enst), p. p. & a.
Definition: Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or
wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced
physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.
The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
EXPERIENCE
Ex*pe"ri*ence, n. Etym: [F. expérience, L. experientia, tr.
experiens, , 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.
Ex*pe"ri*ence, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experienced (-enst); p. pr. & vb.
n. Experiencing (-en-sng).]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition