Experience

[Fr. expérience; Lat. experientia, from experior - ex, and obsolete perior; Gr. peirao, to attempt, to endeavor, to try. Trial; proof; test; e ay; attempt; experiment; a series of trials or experiments; active effort or attempt to do or to prove something, or repeated efforts; observation of a fact, or of the same facts or events happening under like circumstances; trial from suffering or enjoyment; suffering itself; the use of the senses; knowledge derived from trials, use, practice, or from a series of observations. -v. a . To try; to prove; to e ay; to make trial of; to try by use, by suffering, or by enjoyment; to know by practice or trial; to gain knowledge or skill by practice, or by a series of observations. Experienced, p . a . Tried; used; practised; suffered; enjoyed; taught by practice, or by repeated observations; skilful or wise by means of trials, use, or observa tion.