Definition of Experience

Existence

EXPERIENCE noun

	The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. Joel Frad Bink

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Expostulation

Regular definition:

EXPERIENCE:
?ks?p??r??ns n. & v. --n. 1 actual observation of or practical acquaintance with facts or events. 2 knowledge or skill resulting from this. 3 a an event regarded as affecting one (an unpleasant experience). b the fact or process of being so affected (learnt by experience). --v.tr. 1 have experience of; undergo. 2 feel or be affected by (an emotion etc.). øøexperienceable adj. [ME f. OF f. L experientia f. experiri expert- try]

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