Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Experiential \Ex*pe`ri*en"tial\, a.
   Derived from, or pertaining to, experience. --Coleridge.

         It is called empirical or experiential . . . because it
         is divan to us by experience or observation, and not
         obtained as the result of inference or reasoning.
                                                  --Sir. W.
                                                  Hamiltion.
   -- {Ex*pe`ri*en"tial*ly}, adv. --DR. H. More.