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<blockquote>Courting popularity at his party's <b>expense</b>. <i>Brougham.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Loss.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>And moan the <b>expense</b> of many a vanished sight. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Expense magazine</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a small magazine containing ammunition for immediate use.</cd></cs>

<i>H. L. Scott.</i>

<h1>Expensefull</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pense"full</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Full of expense; costly; chargeable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> <i>Sir H. Wotton</i>. -- <wordforms><wf>Ex*pense"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> <mark>[R.]</mark> -- <wf>Ex*pense"ful*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> <mark>[R.]</mark></wordforms>

<h1>Expenseless</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pense"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without cost or expense.</def>

<h1>Expensive</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pen"sive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; <as>as, <ex>expensive</ex> dress; an <ex>expensive</ex> house or family.</as></def>

<blockquote>War is <b>expensive</b>, and peace desirable. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>An active, <b>expensive</b>, indefatigable goodness. <i>Sprat.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The idle and <b>expensive</b> are dangerous. <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Costly; dear; high-priced; lavish; extravagant.</syn>

-- <wordforms><wf>Ex*pen"sive*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Ex*pen"sive*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Experience</h1> <Xpage=523>

<hw>Ex*pe"ri*ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>exp\'82rience</ets>, L. <ets>experientia</ets>, tr. <ets>experiens</ets>, <ets><?/entis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>experiri</ets>, <ets>expertus</ets>, to try; <ets>ex</ets> out + the root of <ets>pertus</ets> experienced. See <er>Peril</er>, and cf. <er>Expert</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Trial, as a test or experiment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>She caused him to make <b>experience</b> Upon wild beasts. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.</def> "Guided by other's <i>experiences</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of <b>experience</b>. <i>P. Henry</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>To most men experience</b> is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by <b>experience</b> how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no <b>experience</b> of it. <i>Sharp.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; <as>as, a king without <ex>experience of war</ex></as>.</def>