The prince now ripe and full experient.
Beau. & Fl.
Ex*pe`ri*en"tial (?), a. Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge.
It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is divan to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning.
Sir. W. Hamiltion.
-- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. DR. H. More.
Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ism (?), n. (Philos.) The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism.
Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a psychological one.
G. C. Robertson.
Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ist, n. One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.
Ex*per"i*ment (?), n. [L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf. OF. esperiment, experiment. See Experience.] 1. A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under 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 suggested or known truth; practical test; proof.
A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.
J. Adams.