Experienced

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  experienced
       adj : having become knowledgeable or skillful from observation or
             participation [ant: {inexperienced}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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