experienced : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: experienced	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
experienced adj having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation Synonym(s): experienced, experient Antonym(s): inexperienced, inexperient
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Experienced \Expe"rienced\ (-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. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. --Bancroft.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Exrerience \Exre"rience\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Experienced} (-enst); p. pr. & vb. n. {Experiencing} (-en-s?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. 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.