Experienced
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Experience \Ex*pe"ri*ence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Experienced}
([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*enst); p. pr. & vb. n. {Experiencing}
([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*en*s[i^]ng).]
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.
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The partial failure and disappointment which he had
experienced in India. --Thirwall.
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2. To exercise; to train by practice.
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The youthful sailors thus with early care
Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. --Harte.
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{To experience religion} (Theol.), to become a convert to the
doctrines of Christianity; to yield to the power of
religious truth.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
experienced \ex*pe"ri*enced\ ([e^]ks*p[=e]"r[i^]*enst), p. p. &
a.
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.
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The ablest and most experienced statesmen. --Bancroft.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "experienced":
acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accomplished, accustomed,
adapted, adept, adjusted, au fait, blase, capable, case-hardened,
competent, conditioned, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, efficient,
expert, familiarized, hardened, in the know, inured, knowing,
knowledgeable, master, masterly, mature, matured, naturalized,
not born yesterday, old, old-line, old-time, on the ball,
orientated, oriented, practical, practiced, prepared, professional,
proficient, qualified, ripe, ripened, run-in, sagacious, sage,
savvy, seasoned, shrewd, skilled, skillful, sophisticated, trained,
tried, tried and true, used to, versed, vet, veteran,
well-informed, well-versed, wise, wont, wonted, world-wise,
worldly, worldly-wise
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