experimentalize

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verb

To make experiments upon.

“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”

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Meanings

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

present singular third person experimentalizes · participle present experimentalizing · participle past experimentalized · past experimentalized

  1. transitiveTo make experiments upon.
  2. intransitiveTo 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

    2 more examples

    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.

    1829, Hugh Clapperton, “Travels”, in The Westminster Review

    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.

    1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw, page 295

Origin

From experimental + -ize.

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APA

experimentalize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/experimentalize

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “experimentalize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/experimentalize.

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