Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: experience – exploring
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experience (-ed), v. [see experience, n.]
- Receive; come to know; become acquainted with.
- Undergo; suffer; be subject to; arrive at a state of being.
- Test; prove; partake; use; practice; [fig.] know by reading; learn by studying; become acquainted with through language.
experiment, n. [see experience, n.]
- Trial; test; act designed to discover some unknown truth.
- Experience; feeling; suffering.
expiation, n. [L. 'to make satisfaction'.]
Atonement; propitiation; sacrifice of self for others; payment of restitution for a crime.
expire (-s, -ing), v. [Fr. < L. 'to breath out'.]
- Fade; die out; dwindle away.
- Exhale; emit air; give forth breath; [fig.] utter; speak out; express audibly; [metaphor] succumb to mortality.
- Die; perish; breathe the last breath.
expiring, verbal adj. [see expire, v.]
Ending; closing; parting; dying; lingering; last.
explain (-ed), v. [L. ex, out + planus, flat.]
- Clarify; define; elucidate; make intelligible; shed light on; enlighten to understanding. [Webster 1844] “The first business of a preacher is to explain his text. Notes and comments are intended to explain the Scriptures.”
- Expound; talk about; justify with logic; explicate with reason; illustrate by discourse.
explanation, n. [see explain, v.]
- Illustration; act of informing; clearing up of obscurity.
- Reconciliation; resolution of differences.
exploit, n. [OFr esplait, something unfolded, brought out, or put forth.] (webplay: achieve).
Deed; accomplishment; attainment; adventure.
explore, v. [Fr. < L. ex, out + plōrāre, to make flow.]
- Search; examine carefully; go forward to make a discovery in.
- Scrutinize; analyze; study; consider; [fig.] look for treasure in.
exploring, verbal adj. [see explore, v.]
Searching; treasure-seeking; [fig.] inquiring; excavating; hungry for truth; laboring as a poet.