experimentize

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verb

To perform a scientific experiment.

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Meanings

verbexperimentize (third-person singular simple present experimentizes, present participle experimentizing, simple past and past participle experimentized)

present singular third person experimentizes · participle present experimentizing · participle past experimentized · past experimentized

  1. archaicintransitiveTo perform a scientific experiment.

    I think you will have to modify your belief about the difficulty of dispersal of land molluscs; I was interrupted when beginning to experimentize on the just hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.

    1887, Charles Darwin, “To A. R. Wallace, June 5, 1876”, in Francis Darwin, editor, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, volume II, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 407

Origin

From experiment + -ize.

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