experimentalize

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English

Etymology

From experimental +‎ -ize.

Verb

experimentalize (third-person singular simple present experimentalizes, present participle experimentalizing, simple past and past participle experimentalized)

  1. (transitive) To make experiments upon.
  2. (intransitive) To experiment.
    • September 18 1852, John Stuart Mill, letter to Alexis de Tocqueville
      I investigate, I experimentalize; I try to grasp the facts more closely than has yet been attempted
    • 1829, Hugh Clapperton, “Travels”, in The Westminster Review:
      The Fellatas flocked from all quarters to this new seat of civilization and learning; and his growing power induced Danfodio to experimentalize upon its extent.
    • 1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw, page 295:
      Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.