ppl. a. Also 6 experiment. [f. EXPERIMENT v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Of persons: Experienced; practised or versed in (an art). Now rare. Cf. Fr. expérimenté.

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c. 1477.  Caxton, Jason, 120 b. Ye are right wise and well experimented in plente of hye sciences.

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c. 1520.  Pace, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. xi. 21. Nothyng escaping the Spanyardys, in that facultie wonderfullie experimentid or learnid.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., Prol. 14. He estemeis vs to be litil experementit in the veyris.

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1582–8.  Hist. James VI. (1804), 110. Learnit men, weill experiment in physick.

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1662.  Gerbier, Princ., 16. Divers experimented Architects.

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1883.  Gd. Words, 144. No mere writer, but a man thoroughly experimented in the world.

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  † 2.  Of a remedy: Proved or tried by experiment or experience; approved. Of a fact, etc.: Known by experience or experiment; ascertained, authenticated. Obs.

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1545.  Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, Prol. (1634), 2. Diuers … more experimented and more familiar medicines.

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1584.  R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XIV. viii. 375. So manie experimented examples.

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1608.  Topsell, Serpents, 43. A late Phisitian, prescribeth an experimented … oyle against any poyson taken into the body.

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1677.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. i. 8. For want of a clear, and sensible, and experimented observation.

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1710.  T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 103. A Noble, Experimented … Remedy.

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1807.  Hutton, Course Math. (1811), II. 376. The experimented resistance … is nearly 1/4 part more than that which is assigned by the theory.

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  † 3.  Met with in the course of experience; = EXPERIENCED 2. Obs.

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1682.  Addr. fr. Worcester, in Lond. Gaz., No. 1707/5. Disorder, Slavery, and the worst of Experimented Mischiefs.

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1715.  D’Anois, Wks., 105. The experimented Vexations of my first Marriage made me afraid to venture.

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1812.  J. J. Henry, Camp. agst. Quebec, 199. This is said from experimented woe and extreme calamity.

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