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Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.] She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser.

A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.

y 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.

One who experiences.

Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth. Failings which are incident to youth and inexperience. Dryden. Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. Addison.

Not having experience unskilled. "Inexperienced youth." Cowper.

A renewed or repeated experience.

Inexperience. [Obs.]

Not experienced; being without experience; inexperienced. Swift.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne. Advanced guard, a detachment of troops which precedes the march of the main body.

ion; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay.

Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

eason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.

Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, asquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; a, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.

wn eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.

A woman newly married, or about to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton. I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9.