| 释义 |
experienced, ppl. a.|ɛkˈspɪərɪənst|
Also 6–7 -enc't, -enst.
[f. experience n. and v. + -ed1.]
1. Of persons, their faculties and powers; occas. of animals, and humorously of inanimate things: Having experience; wise or skilful through experience. Const. in, † of.
1576J. Knewstub Confut. (1579) Q ij b, Men not experienced of his goodness particularly must needs think, etc. 1592Chettle Kind-harts Dr. (1841) 28 The worshipfull company of experienst chirurgions. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 68 To his experienc'd tongue. 1654Cromwell Sp. 4 Sept. (Carlyle), It will be the wisdom of all knowing and experienced Christians to do as Jude saith. 1667Milton P.L. i. 568 He through the armed Files Darts his experienc't eye. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 328 A crew of fifty men, all able and experienced sailors. 1727Swift Vanbrugh's House, Th' experienc'd bricks that knew their trade. 1832H. Martineau Hill & Valley ii. 29 The stray sheep may come back experienced in pasturage. 1849Thoreau Week Concord Riv. Saturday 27 His old experienced coat hanging..straight and brown as the yellow pine back. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 325 At that Board sate Godolphin the most prudent and experienced..of financiers.
absol.1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 176 Graue testimonies..of the..wisest, and most experienced. 1838Lytton Alice 13 The young ever wonder why the experienced should be sad.
†2. Of remedies, etc.: Tested, tried, approved.
1569R. Androse (title), Alexis' Secrets..containing 680 and odd experienced medecines. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 1 The experienced adage ‘omne animal generat sibi simile’. 1676Hale Contempl. i. 2 It is the most certain, known, experienced truth in the World that all men must die. 1780Johnson Let. Mrs. Thrale 24 Aug., To..counteract by experienced remedies every new tendency.
3. Met with in the course of experience; felt, suffered, undergone.
1604Stirling Aurora Song ii. 8 For long experienc'd wo well witnesse beares, That teares cannot quench sighes. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. xii. xxxvii, Too well we know his power by long experienc't harms. 1686R. Dunning Overseer of Poor 7 The experienced effects of our Method. 1849–50Alison Hist. Europe VIII. li. §11. 235 A cautious and guiltless reformation of experienced grievances.
Hence † exˈperiencedly adv., by experience.
1617Strafford in Browning Life 289, I having felt [him] experiencedly to be very little friendly towards me. |