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Expectative (?), a. [Cf. F. expectatif.] Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.
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Coloq. Expectative grace , a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.
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Expectative, n. [F. expectative, fr. expectatif expectant.] Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. Milman.
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Expectedly, adv. In conformity with expectation. [R.] Walpole.
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Expecter (?), n. One who expects.
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Expectingly, adv. In a state of expectation.
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Expective (?), a. Expectative. [R.] Shipley.
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Expectorant (?), a. [L. expectorans, p. pr. of expectorare to drive from the breast: cf. F. expectorant.] (Med.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n. An expectorant medicine.
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Expectorate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expectorated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expectorating (?).] [L. expecrorare to drive from the breast; ex out + pectus, pectiris, breast. See .] To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.
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Expectorate, v. i. To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.
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Expectoration (?), n. [Cf. F. expectoration.] 1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.
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2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.
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Expectorative (?), a. & n. Same as . Harvey.
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Expede (?) v. t. To expedite; to hasten. [Obs.]
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Expediate (?), v. t. [Cf. F. expédier. See .] To hasten; to expedite. [Obs.] “To expediate their business.” Sir E. Sandys.

{ Expedience (?), Expediency (?), }, n. 1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude or principle.
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Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan.
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To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp.
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Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. Whately.
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2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
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Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.
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3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
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Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak.
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Expedient (?) a. [L. expediens, -entis, p. pr. of expedire to be expedient, release, extricate: cf. F. expédient. See .] 1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right or principled.
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It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7.
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Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately.
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2. Quick; expeditious. [Obs.]
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His marches are expedient to this town. Shak.
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Expedient, n. 1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end.
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What sure expedient than shall Juno find,
To calm her fears and ease her boding mind? Philips.
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2. Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Syn. -- Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute.
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Expediential (?). Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy. “Calculating, expediential understanding.” Hare. -- Expedientially , adv. �.
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Expediently (?) adv. 1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.
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2. With expedition; quickly. [Obs.]
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Expediment (?) n. An expedient. [Obs.]
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A like expediment to remove discontent. Barrow.
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Expeditate (?), v. t. [LL. expeditatus, p. p. of expeditare to expeditate; ex out + pes, pedis, foot.] (Eng. Forest Laws) To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer. See also .
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Expedite (?), a. [L. expeditus, p. p. of expedire to free one caught by the foot, to extricate, set free, bring forward, make ready; ex out + pes, prdis, t. See .] 1. Free of impediment; unimpeded.
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To make the way plain and expedite. Hooker.
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2. Expeditious; quick; speedily; prompt.
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Nimble and expedite . . . in its operation. Tollotson.
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Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts. Locke.
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Expedite, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expedited (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Expediting (?).] 1. To relieve of impediments; to facilitate; to accelerate the process or progress of; to hasten; to quicken; as, to expedite the growth of plants.
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To expedite your glorious march. Milton.
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2. To despatch; to send forth; to issue officially.
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Such charters be expedited of course. Bacon.
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Expeditely (?), adv. In expedite manner; expeditiously.
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Expediteness, n. Quality of being expedite.
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Expedition (?), n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.] 1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
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With winged expedition
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Swift as the lightning glance. �
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2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
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Putting it straight in expedition. �
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3. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
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The expedition miserably failed. Prescott.
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Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.
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Expeditionary (?), a. Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
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Expeditionist, n. One who goes upon an expedition. [R].
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Expeditious (?), a. Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger. -- Expeditiously, adv. -- Expeditiousness, n.

Syn. -- Prompt; ready; speedy; alert. See .
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Expeditive (?), a. [Cf. F. expéditif.] Performing with speed. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Expel (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expelled (?), p. pr. & vb. n.. Expelling.] [L. expellere, expulsum; ex out + pellere to drive: cf.F. expeller. See a beat.] 1. To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as, to expel air from a bellows.
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Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house? Judg. xi. 7.
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2. To drive away from one's country; to banish.
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Forewasted all their land, and them expelled. Spenser..
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He shall expel them from before you . . . and ye shall possess their land. Josh. xxiii. 5.
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3. To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.
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4. To keep out, off, or away; to exclude. “To expel the winter's flaw.” Shak.
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5. To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.]
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Then he another and another [shaft] did expel. Spenser..

Syn. -- To banish; exile; eject; drive out. See .
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Expellable (?), a. Capable of being expelled or driven out. “Expellable by heat.” Kirwan.
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Expeller (?), n. One who, or that which, expels.
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expelling n. any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body.
Syn. -- discharge, emission.
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Expend (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expended; p. pr. & vb. n. Expending.] [L. expendere, expensum, to weigh out, pay out, lay out, lay out; ex out + pendere to weigh. See , and cf. .] To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
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If my death might make this island happy . . .
I would expend it with all willingness. Shak.
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Expend, v. i. 1. To be laid out, used, or consumed.
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2. To pay out or disburse money.
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They go elsewhere to enjoy and to expend. Macaulay.
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expended adj. nonexistent or unavailable as a consequence of use or exchange.
Syn. -- gone, spent.
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Expenditor (?), n. [LL.] (O. Eng. Law) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.
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Expenditure (?), n. 1. The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.
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Our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.
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2. That which is expended or paid out; expense.
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The receipts and expenditures of this extensive country. A. Hamilton.
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Expense (?), n. [L. expensa (sc. pecunia), or expensum, fr. expensus, p. p. of expendere. See .] 1. A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
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Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.
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2. That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.
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Courting popularity at his party's expense. Brougham.
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3. Loss. [Obs.] Shak.
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And moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Spenser.
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Coloq. Expense magazine (Mil.), a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use. H. L. Scott.
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Expensefull (?), a. Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Expensefully, adv. [R.] -- Expensefulness, n. [R.]
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Expenseless, a. Without cost or expense.
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Expensive (?), a. 1. Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
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War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.
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2. Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad sense: extravagant; lavish. [R.]
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An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness. Sprat.
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The idle and expensive are dangerous. Sir W. Temple.

Syn. -- Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.

-- Expensively, adv. -- Expensiveness, n.
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Experience (ĕkspērĭ�ns), n. [F. expérience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See , and cf. .] 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [Obs.]
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She caused him to make experience
Upon wild beasts. Spenser.
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2. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering. “Guided by other's experiences.” Shak.
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. P. Henry
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.
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When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland.
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Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. Sharp.
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3. An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
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Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience. Locke.
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Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. Sir J. Herschel.
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Experience, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experienced (ĕkspērĭ�nst); p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing (ĕkspērĭ�nsĭng).] 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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Coloq. 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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experienced (ĕkspērĭ�nst), 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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Experiencer (-en-s?r), n. 1. One who experiences.
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2. An experimenter. [Obs.] Sir. K. Digby.
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Experience table. (Life Insurance) A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.
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Experient (ĕkspērĭ�nt), a. Experienced. [Obs.]
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The prince now ripe and full experient. Beau. & Fl.
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Experiential (ĕkspērĭĕnsh�l), a. Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge.
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It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is given to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamilton.

-- Experientially, adv. Dr. H. More.
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Experientialism (ĕkspērĭĕnsh�lĭz'm), n. (Philos.) The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.
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Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a psychological one. G. C. Robertson.
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Experientialist (ĕkspērĭĕnsh�lĭst), n. One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.
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Experiment (?), n. [L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf. OF. esperiment, experiment. See .] 1. A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something uncertain; esp., one under controlled conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some hypothesis, theory, or known truth; practical test; proof.
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A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours. J. Adams.
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2. Experience. [Obs.]
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Adam, by sad experiment I know
How little weight my words with thee can find. Milton.
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Experiment (ĕkspĕrĭm�nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Experimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Experinenting.] To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
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Experiment, v. t. To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.
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Experimental (?), a. [Cf.F. expérimental.] 1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.
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2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
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experimentalism n. 1. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles.
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2. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation; as, the children of psycholoigsts are often raised in an atmosphere of experimentalism.
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Experimentalist, n. 1. One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter. Whaterly.
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2. One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; -- contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist.
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Experimentalize (?), v. i. To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill.
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Experimentally (?), adv. By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.
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Experimentarian (?), a. Relying on experiment or experience. “an experimentarian philosopher.” Boyle. -- n. One who relies on experiment or experience. [Obs.]
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Experimentation (?), n. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.
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