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EXPEN'SEFUI., adj. Coftly; chargeable; expenfive. 
— No part of ftrudture is either more cxptnfeful than win¬ 
dows, or more ruinous. Wotton. 
EXPENSE LESS, adj. Without cod.—A phyfician 
may lave any army by this frugal and expcnfelefs means 
only. Milton on Education. 
What health promotes, and gives unenvv’d peace, 
Is all expenfe fefs, and procur’d with eafe. Blackntore. 
■ EXPEN'SIS MILITUM NON LEVANDIS, an an¬ 
cient writ to prohibit the Iheriff from levying any allow-’ 
ance for knights of the fliire, upon thofe that hold lands 
in ancient demefne. For there wa6 alfo a writ de expenfu 
.militum levandis, for levying expenfes for knights of the 
parliament, &c. Rcg.Orig. 191.’ 
EXPENSIVE, adj. Given to expenfe; extravagant; 
luxurious—Frugal and Induftriotis men are friendly to 
the eftablifhed government, as the idle and expenfive are 
dangerous. Temple. —Colily; requiring expenfe: as, e.v. 
pevjive drefs ; an expenftve journey. Liberal ; generous; 
diltributive.—This requires an adtive, elxpe.nfive, indefati¬ 
gable goodnefs, inch as our apottle calls a work and la¬ 
bour of love. Spratt. 
EXPENSIVELY, adv. With great expenfe ; at great 
charge.—I never knew him live fo great and expenfinjely 
as he Irath done (ince Iris return from exile. Swift. 
EXPENSIVENESS, /. Addidtion to expenfe ; extra¬ 
vagance. Cofllinefs.—Their highways, for their extent, 
folidity, or expcnjivcncfs, are fome of the great elf monu¬ 
ments of the grandeur of the Roman empire. AErbathnot. 
EXPE'RIENCE, f. [elmcrientia , Lat.] Pradfice; fre¬ 
quent trial. — Hereof experience hath informed reafon, and 
time hath made thofe things apparent which were hidden. 
Raleigh. 
But apt tire mind or fancy is to rove 
Uncheck’d, and of her roving is no end, 
’Till warn’d, or by experience taught, (he learn, 
That not to know at large of tilings remote 
From life, obfeure and fubtle, but to know 
That which before us lies in daily life, 
Is the prime wifdom ; what is more, is fume 
Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, 
And renders 11s in things that molt concern 
Unpradtis’d, unprepar’d, and ltill to feek. Milton. 
Knowledge gained by trial and practice : 
Boys immature in knowledge, 
Pawn their experience to their prefect pleafure. Shakcfpcare. 
“ Experience is the mifirefs of fools.” The Latins 
fay, ExperientiaJlultorum magijlra. Wife men learn by other 
men’s misfortunes; fools by their own : like as Epipha- 
mus exprelfes it, O? errev ko.-s.ov eye vo- n o-r, : or, as Homer: 
zzyfiv h te vYrm^ iyvu.” The Germans fay as we: 
Erfahrung lehret die narren. 
Experience is reprefented in fculpture and painting 
by an elderly woman in a garment of gold ; in her right 
hand a geometrical fquare, and in her left a fcrol 1, with 
the words rerum magijlra, (miflrefs.of things.) At her feet 
a touch-done, and a vale, out of which proceed flames, 
the emblem of immortality. 
To EXPE'RIENCE, v. a. To try; to pradfife. To 
know by practice: 
He through the armed files 
Darts his experienc'd e ye. Milton. 
EXPERIENCED, part. adj. Made lkilful by expe¬ 
rience. Wife by long pradfice : 
To him experienc'd Neftor thus rejoin’d, 
O friend! what furrows doft thou bring to mind! Pope. 
KXPE'RIENGER, J. One who makes trials; a prac- 
tifer of experiments.—A curious expcriencer did affirm, 
that the likenefs of any objedt, if ftrongly enlightened, 
will appear to another, in the eye of him that looks ftrong- 
iv and readily upon it, ’till he be dazzled by if, even 
after he lhall have turned his eyes from it. Digby. 
EXP 
EXPERIMENT,/, \_experimentinn, Lat.] Trial of any 
thing ; fortieth ing done in order to difeover an uncertain 
or unknown effedL—It is good alfo not to try experiments 
in dates, except the neceffity be urgent, or the utility 
evident. Bacon. 
Aidam ! by fad experiment I know, 
How little weight with thee my words can find. Milton. 
To EXPERIMENT, v. a. To try; to fearch out by 
trial. — Francifco Redi experimented that no putrified fleffi 
will of itfelf, if all ibfedts be carefully kept from ir, pro¬ 
duce any. Ray .—To know by experience.—-.When the fuc- 
ceflion of ideas ceafes, our perception of duration ceafes 
with it, which every one experiments vvhilft he lleeps found- 
ly. Locke. 
EXPERIMENTAL, adj. Pertaining to experiment. 
Built upon experiment; formed by obfervation : 
Trud: not my reading, nor my obfervations, 
Which with 'experimental feal do. warrant, 
The tenor of my book. Shakcfpeare. 
Known by experiment or trial.—We have no other evi¬ 
dence of univerfal impenetrability, befides a large expe¬ 
rience, without an experimental exception. Newton. 
EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY, the dodlrine or 
ted of experiment, or that which deduces the lav/s of na¬ 
ture, and the properties and powers of bodies, and their 
adtions upon each other, from fendble experiments and 
obfervations. — See the article Philosophy. 
EXPERIMENT ALLY, adv. By experience; by trial; 
by experiment; by obfervation.—While the man is under 
the fcotirge of afflidfion, he is willing to abjure thofe fins 
which he now experimentally finds attended with fuch bit¬ 
ter confequences. Rogers. 
EXPERIMENTER, /. One who makes experiments. 
—Galileus and Morfennus, two exadt experimenters , do 
think they find this verity by their experiences. Digby. 
EXPERT, adj. [ expertus, Lat.] Skilful; addrefsful; 
intelligent: 
Again fair Alma fits confeft, 
On Florimel’s expertcr bread; 
When die the rifing figh condrains, 
And by concealing, fpeaks her pains. Prior . 
Ready; dexterous: 
The meaned fculptor in the zEmilian fquare, 
Can imitate in brafs the nails and hair 1 ; 
Expert in trifles, and a cunning fool, 
Able t’ exprefs the parts, but not difpofe the whole. 
Dry den. 
Skilful by praclice or experience. Thisfenfeis rare.—Expert 
men can execute, and judge of particulars, one by one ; 
but the general counfels, and the plots and marfhailing of 
affairs, come bed: from thofe that are learned. Bacon _It is 
ufed with o/before the objedt of {kill, generally with in: 
Expert of arms, and prudent in debate, 
The gifts of heaven to guard thy hoary date. Pope. 
EXPERT'LY, adv. In a fkilful, ready, and dexterous, 
manner. 
EXPERT'NESS,/ Skill; readinefs; dexterity.—What 
his reputation, what his valour, honeiiy, and expertnefs in 
war. Shakcfpeare. 
EX'PIABLE, adj. Capable to be expiated, or atoned. 
To EX'PIATE, v. a. [ expio, Lat.] To annul the guilt 
of a crime by fubfequent adts of piety ; to atone for.— 
The odium which fome men’s rigour or remiffnefs had 
contradted upon my government, I refolved to expiate by 
regulations. King Charles. —Toavert the threats of pro¬ 
digies. To make reparation for.—The more they have 
hitherto embezzled their parts, the more they endeavour 
to expiate that unthriftinels by a more careful managery 
for the future. Government of the Tongue. 
EXPIA'TION, f. The adt of expiating or atoning for 
any crime. The means by which we atone for crimes ; 
atonement.—Let a man’s innocence be vvliat it will, let 
1 his 
