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n. Opposition to imperialism. This term was applied originally in the United States, after the Spanish-American war (1898), to the attitude or principles of those opposing territorial expansion; in England, of those, often called Little Englanders, opposing the extension of the empire and the closer relation of its parts, esp. in matters of commerce and imperial defense. After the second world war, the term became used for opposition to any hegemony of one power over a foreign territory, and to the support for the national independence of territories, as in Africa, which were controlled by European nations. -- An`ti-im*pe"ri*al*ist, n. -- An`ti-im*pe`ri*al*is"tic a. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. (Med.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. 'antiperi`stasis; 'anti` against + peri`stasis a standing around, fr. periista`nai to stand around; peri` around + "ista`nai to stand.] Opposition by which the quality opposed acquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality. [1913 Webster]

a. Pertaining to antiperistasis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aperiens, p. pr. of aperire to uncover, open; ab + parire, parere, to bring forth, produce. Cf. Cover, Overt. ] (Med.) Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n. An aperient medicine or food. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. apéritif, fr. L. aperire. ] Serving to open; aperient. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Peril. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. asper rough + folium leaf. ] (Bot.) Having rough leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By some applied to the natural order now called Boraginaceæ or borageworts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Asperities [ L. asperitas, fr. asper rough: cf. F. aspérité. ] 1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. “The asperities of dry bodies.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness. “Asperity of character.” Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Acrimony; moroseness; crabbedness; harshness; sourness; tartness. See Acrimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. ] (Law) Perishable goods. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending the melting of the glaciers, while the later deposits are of finer material in more quiet waters, as the alluvium. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of covering with copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An envelope or covering of copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Diaper, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Covered or supplied with drapery. [ R. ] Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An empress. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put in peril. See Imperil. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perished; decayed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ento- + peripheral. ] (Physiol.) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. epi- + peripheral. ] (Physiol.) Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. expérience, L. experientia, tr. experiens, experientis, p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root of peritus experienced. See Peril, and cf. Expert. ] 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She caused him to make experience
Upon wild beasts. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. “Guided by other's experiences.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. P. Henry [ 1913 Webster ]

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the consuls . . . came in . . . they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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, a king without experience of war. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence hath the mind all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Experience may be acquired in two ways; either, first by noticing facts without any attempt to influence the frequency of their occurrence or to vary the circumstances under which they occur; this is observation; or, secondly, by putting in action causes or agents over which we have control, and purposely varying their combinations, and noticing what effects take place; this is experiment. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Experienced p. pr. & vb. n. Experiencing ] 1. To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views. [ 1913 Webster ]

The partial failure and disappointment which he had experienced in India. Thirwall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exercise; to train by practice. [ 1913 Webster ]

The youthful sailors thus with early care
Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the doctrines of Christianity; to yield to the power of religious truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who experiences. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An experimenter. [ Obs. ] Sir. K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Life Insurance) A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Experienced. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The prince now ripe and full experient. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it is given to us by experience or observation, and not obtained as the result of inference or reasoning. Sir. W. Hamilton.

-- Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly, adv. Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]

n. (Philos.) The doctrine that experience, either that of ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

Experientialism is in short, a philosophical or logical theory, not a psychological one. G. C. Robertson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. experimentum, fr. experiri to try: cf. OF. esperiment, experiment. See Experience. ] 1. A trial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something uncertain; esp., one under controlled conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some hypothesis, theory, or known truth; practical test; proof. [ 1913 Webster ]

A political experiment can not be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours. J. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Experience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Adam, by sad experiment I know
How little weight my words with thee can find. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Experimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Experinenting. ] To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial or experience. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf.F. expérimental. ] 1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation; as, the children of psycholoigsts are often raised in an atmosphere of experimentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter. Whaterly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; -- contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist. [ PJC ]

v. i. To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relying on experiment or experience. “an experimentarian philosopher.” Boyle. -- n. One who relies on experiment or experience. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] An experimenter. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]