Meanings
adjectiveindagatory (comparative more indagatory, superlative most indagatory)
comparative more indagatory · superlative most indagatory
- indagative
As Boyle described them, "experiments of discovery, or as for brevity sake I sometimes call them, indagatory, detecting, or exploratory ways of trial," may often use methods "very near of kind and sometimes perhaps coincident" to probatory experiments […]
1995, Rose-Mary Sargent, The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment
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