[f. EXPERIENCE v. + -ER1.]
1. One who experiences something.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Philos. Syst., 214. Neither doer, nor experiencer.
1889. Wright, Chalice of Carden, xiii. 92. A fine enthusiasm, of such potency, indeed, that, at first blush, the experiencer of it has already in imagination attained unto the end.
† 2. One who makes experiments. Obs.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, viii. 59. A curious experiencer did affirme, that the likenesse of any obiect [etc.].
Hence 1755 in Johnson, 1775 in Ash, and in mod. Dicts.
