Experiment vs Experient - What's the difference?
experiment | experient |
A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
To conduct an experiment.
(obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
(obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
* 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
As nouns the difference between experiment and experient
is that experiment is experiment while experient is a person who experiences something.As an adjective experient is
met with in the course of experience.experiment
English
(wikipedia experiment)Noun
(en noun)- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment , / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
Verb
(en verb)- The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
