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exˈperient, a. and n.
[ad. L. experient-em: see experience n.]
A. adj. Having experience; = experienced 1. experient of: acquainted with.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. ii. 96 The wardeyne with his rodde experient May be therof thourgh putting every went [i.e. space dug]. c1523Barclay tr. Mancini's Mirr. Gd. Manners H iiij b, The manner..Of a wyse Phesician or Leche experient. 1605Chapman All Fooles Plays 1873 I. 121 Which wisedome sure he learn'd Of his experient father. 1630Lord Persees 29 The knowledge of the latter in these experient times seemeth unnecessary. 1926A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World ix. 211 The ego-object, as consciousness here-now, is conscious of its experient essence as constituted by its internal relatedness to the world of realities, and to the world of ideas. 1933― Adventures of Ideas xiv. 216 In this transmutation the experient occasion in question belongs to the personal succession of occasions which is the soul of the animal.
absol.1642Herle Fuller Answ. to Ferne To Rdr. 1 No man can write well of it, but he must..eate the Roll..the experient herein are only eloquent.
B. n.
†1. Something experienced, tested, or tried. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. iii. 156 This noble experient.
2. One who experiences something; one who undergoes an experience.
1899J. Ward Naturalism & Agnosticism II. 181 His [sc. Descartes's] doctrine reduces the individual experient to a mere automaton. 1917Mod. Churchman VII. 79 Experience implies an experient. 1918E. Grubb Relig. Experience iii. 37 Religious Experience..is..personal and incommunicable; however abundant the assurance of Reality it brings to the experient, he cannot share that certainty with others as he can the normal experience of the senses. 1925J. E. Turner Theory of Direct Realism 16 Sense-contents..depend in part for their own existence and character directly upon the existence and activity of the percipient observer or experient. 1938R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art 252 The emotions it expresses are not only the emotions of a merely conscious experient, they include the emotions of a thinker. |