Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who experiences; one who makes trials or experiments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who experiences.
- noun obsolete An experimenter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
experiences . - noun linguistics A
thematic relation where somethingundergoes asituation orsensation lacking a semanticagent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead of whoring himself out like every other tell-all Roswell "experiencer", Haut held onto his cards for the most meaningful public impact.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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This becomes apparent once you look through a large number of both types of verbs here are complete lists of subject-experiencer and object-experiencer verbs in English.
Confusing verbs GamesWithWords 2010
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You Are ... beyond the body-mind and personality, beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof, beyond the world and its perceiver, beyond existence and its absence, beyond all assertions and denials.
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This becomes apparent once you look through a large number of both types of verbs here are complete lists of subject-experiencer and object-experiencer verbs in English.
Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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It is beyond all experience and the experiencer thereof.
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The problem mentioned in the previous post was that there are also subject-experiencer verbs that have participles which can take the "un" prefix, such as "unloved".
Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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To be completely fair to the theory, the claim that object-experiencer verbs are "weird" (more specifically, that they require syntactic movement) could be still be right (though I don't think it is).
Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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The problem mentioned in the previous post was that there are also subject-experiencer verbs that have participles which can take the "un" prefix, such as "unloved".
Confusing verbs GamesWithWords 2010
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To be completely fair to the theory, the claim that object-experiencer verbs are "weird" (more specifically, that they require syntactic movement) could be still be right (though I don't think it is).
Confusing verbs GamesWithWords 2010
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Exciting is in the eye of the experiencer I suppose, so you are of course entitled to that opinion.
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