Obs. [f. L. expert- ppl. stem of experīrī to try: see EXPERIENCE sb., EXPERT a.1] trans. To experience; to know by experience. Hence Experted ppl. a., experienced.

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1432–50.  trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 183. The women experte the knowlege of diverse men.

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1475.  Bk. Noblesse (1860), 60. They have no sufficient bookis … and be not expertid.

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1553.  S. Cabot, Ordinances, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 262. For declaration of the trueth which you shall haue experted.

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1579.  Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Nov., 183. Knewe wee … what it [death] us bringes untill, Dye would we daylie, once it to expert.

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1587.  Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. I. 306/1. This Thomas was a man … experted … in ecclesiasticall matters.

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