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Show ooy A A ¢ 0o Ui S What health promotes, and gives unenvy'd peace Xs all expenfelefs, and procur'd with eafe Blackm Exer/nsive. adj. [from expenfe. 1. Given to expenfe; extravagant; luxurious Frugal and induftrious men are friendly to th eftablifhed government, as the idle and expenfive ar Temple dangerous as expen 2. Coftly ; requiring expenfe five drefs ; an expenfive journcy 3. Liberal ; generous ; diftributive Exre/NsIVELY. adv. [from expenfive.FWit great expenfe 5 at great charge I never knew him live fo great and expenfivel as he hath done fince his return from exile. Swifz Expr/NstveNess. z.f. [from expenfive. 1. Addicion to expenfe; extravagance penfivenefs, are fome of the greateft monuments o Arbuthnot the grandeur of the Roman empire EXPERIENCE. 7. /. [experientia, Latin. 1. Praftice; frequent trial Hereof experience hath informed reafon, ‘and tim hath made thofe things apparent which were hidden Raleigh But apt the mind or fancy is to rov and of her roving is no end fhe learn is fum Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence And renders us in things that moft concer Unpraétis'd, unprepar'd, and ftill to feek Milton 2Knowledge gained by trial and pratice ~Boys immature in knowledge Pawn their experience to their prefent pleafure Shakefpeare But if you'll profper, mark what I advife Who age and long experience render wife Pope Zo Expe'R1ENCE, w. @ [from the noun. 1. To try; to pratife 2. 'To know by praétife He through the armed file Darts his experienc'd eye Milton. Expr/RIENCED. participal adj. [from experience. 1, Made fkilful by experience We muft perfe, as much as we can, our ideas o the diftinét fpecies; or learn them from fuch as ar ufed to that fort of things, and are experienced i Locke them. 2. Wife by long pradtice To him experienc'd Neftor thus rejoin'd Osfriend what forrows do'it thou bring to mind Pope Expe'R1iencER. # /. Onewho makes trials a prattifer of experiments A curious experiencer did affirm, that the like nefs of any objed, if ftrongly enlightened, will appear to another, in the eye of him that looks ftrongl _and fteadily upon it,'till he be dazzled by it; eve Digb after he fhall have turned his eyes from it EXPE/RIMENT. 7. /. [experimentum, Lat. Trial of any thing ; fomething done i order to difcover anuncertain or unknow effect That which theweth them to be wife, is the gathering of principles out of their own particular ex periments and the framin Francifco Redi experimented thatno putrified flef will of itfelf, ifall infects be carefully kept from it Ray on the Crea 2. 'To know by experience When the fucceffion of ideas ceafes, out preception of duration ceafes with it, which every on Liocke experiments whilft he fleeps foundly EXPERIMENTAL. adj. [from experiment. 1. Pertaining to experiment 2. Built upon experiment; formed by obfervation Shakefpeare The experimental teftimony of Gillius is mof confiderable of any, who beheld the courfe thereof Broawn's Vulgar Err 3. Known by experiment or trial We have no other evidence of univerfal impenetrability, befides a large expertence, withoutan expeNeavton rimental exception Thefe are fo far from being fubfervient to atheift in their audacious attempts, that they rather affor an experimental confirmation of the univerfal deluge B Bentley's Sermons experi [fro adv experience b trial b of our particular expe riments, according to the rule of their principles Hogker fhall make us fuch as they are It is good alfo not to try. experiments in ftates, except the neceflity be urgent, or the utility evident Bacon Adam| by fad experiment 1 know How little weight with thee my words can find ~Milton ot The mifcarriage being fometimes. univerfal, ha made us impart what we have experimentally learne Ewelyn's Kalender by our own obfervations While the man is under the fcourge of affliction he is willing to abjure thofe fins which he now experimentally finds attended with fuch bitter confeRogers's Sermons quences ExpeRIMENTER. 2z Jf. [from experiment. Onewho makes experiment two exalt experimenters Galileus and Morfennus do think they find this verity by their experiences Digby but furely this is impofiible to be done EXPERT. adj. [expertus, Latin. 1. Skilfal ; addrefsful ; intelligent On Flotimel's experter breaft When fhe the rifing figh conftrains And by concealing fpeaks her pains Prior 2. Ready ; dexterous Expert in trifles, and a cunning foo Able ¢ exprefs the parts, but not difpofe the whole Diyden They have not the good luck to be perfectly knowing in the forms of fyllogifm, or expert in mode an Locke figure 3. Skilful by praflice or experience - {enfe is rare lars, on th "Thi men can execute, and judge of particu by one but th plots and marfhallin thofe that are learned implore permiffion to expiate their crimes by thei affiduous labours in fo inmocent and fo hopeful Bacon's Phyf. Remains The odium which fome men's rigour or remiflnefs had contracted upon my government, I refolve King Charles to expiate by regulations general counfels, an of affairs, come beft fro Bacon ‘4. It is ufed by Pope with of befor objec of fkill, generally with 7x th Thy offspring bloom Expert of arms, and prudent in debate "The gifts of Heaven to guard thy hoary ftate Pope's Odyffey ferious an humble Tor the cure of this difeaf hearty repentance is the only phyfick; inot to expiate the guilt of it, but to qualify us to partak Ray of the benefit of Chrift's atonement 2. To avert the threats of prodigies 3. To make reparation for The treafurer obliged himfelf to expiate the igjury, to procure fome declaration to that purpoic Clarendon under his‘majefty's fign manual The more they have hitherto embezzled thei parts, the more they endeavour to expiate that unthriftinefs by a more carcful managery for the future Government of the Tongue Expia'rion. 7 /. [from expiate. 1. The a& of expiating or atoning for an crime 2. The means by which we atone fo atonement crimes. Law can difcover fin, but not remove Save by thofe thadowy expiations weak Miltorn The blood of bulls and goats The former part of this poem is but a due expiationfor my not ferving my king and country in it Dryden Let man's innocenc b let hi ‘what it will virtues rife to the higheft pitch of perfetion, ther will be till in him fo many fecret fins, fo man frailties huma man f offence of .ignorance paffion, and prejudice, fo many unguarded word and thoughts, that without the advantage of fuch a expiation and atonement, as Chriftianity has reveale to us, it is impofiible he fhould be faved. Addifen. 3. Pra@ices by which the threats of ominious prodigies were averted the birth of fuch monfters, the Grecian did ufe divers forts of expiations an to go about their principal cities with many folem Hayawood ceremonies and facrifices ExpiaTorY. adj. [from expiate.] Havin the power of expiation or atonement His voluntary death for others prevailed with God Exeiralrion hai an in true penitence and had the force of an expiatory facrifice The meaneft fculptor in th' Almilian fquare Exper felons able pett an and Roman Shake/p Placing therein fome experz officers Again fair Alma fits confeft the nail Stron Upo Now we will take fome order in the town Can imitate in braf 1. To annul the guilt of a crime by fubfequent alts of piety ; to atone for work experiment ; by obfervation That which before us lies in daily life what is more To ExpE'RIMENT. . 2. [from the noun. 1. To tryy to fearch out by trial mental. From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, butto kno Is the prime wifdom Soufh's Sermons. | E/xp1ABLE. adj. [from expiate.] Capable t When we are fearching out the nature or propered, or atoned a p e b ties of any being by various methods of trial, thi in La pi [e a @ T I X E T ts Wa t me er ex fort of obfervation is calle ExpErIME/NTALLY That not to know at large of things remot foldiers, was thought fufficient to have met th Knolles's Hifbory greateft army of the Turks out the fmart of theexperiment The tenor of my book Their highways, for their extent, folidity, or ex or by experience taught but of fin; or, at leaft, it refted in the notion with Truft not my reading, nor my obfervations Which with experimental {eal do warrant 2. Coftlinef >Till warn'd YTl his fall man's mind was ighotant of nothin produce any This requires an adive, expenfive, indefatigabl goodnefs, fuch as our apoftle calls a work and labou Spratt of love Uncheck'd B Jf [expilatio Hooker Latin. Robbery; the act of committing: waft upon land to the lofs of the heir Expira'T10ON. 7. /i [from expire 1. That a@& of refpiration which thrift the air out of the lungs, and contract Quincy the cavity of the breaft I all.expiratio the motio is outwards an therefore rather driveth away the voice than drawBacon's Nat. Hiffory eth it Of an inflammation of the diaphragm, the fymptoms are a violent fever, and a moft exquifite pai increafes upon infpiration; by which it is diftinguithed from a pleurify, in which the greateft pai is in expiration Arbuthnot on Diet 2. The laft emiffion of breath; death We have heard him breathe the groan of expira tivit Rambler 3. Evaporation; att of fuming out Exprr/TLY. adwv. [from expert.] In a fkil- 4. Vapour; matter expired ful, ready, and dexterous manner Words of this fort refemble the wind in fur and impetuoufnefs, in tranfientnefs and fudden exExpe'rTNEss. 7 /o [from expers.] Skill ry Pi o a De on at pi readinefs ; dexterity What his reputation, what his valour, honefty and expertzefs in war Shakefp . This army, for the gxpertnef and. valour of th Clofe air is warmer than open air, as the caufe o cold is an expiration from the earth, which i open places is ftropger Bacon's Natural Hiffory IEh |