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experimentalist|ɛkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
1. One who devotes himself to experimental research in some branch of science; one who is skilled in performing experiments.
1762W. Jones (of Nayland) Ess. Nat. Phil. i. iii. 26 There is hardly a motion in nature, which this fluid, when applied by a diligent experimentalist, is not capable of producing. 1787W. Marshall Norfolk I. 366 Praise is due to every experimentalist in agriculture. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. v. 175 The qualities that distinguish an observer of nature from a mere experimentalist. 1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 20 This person..was the last active experimentalist who believed that transmutation has actually been performed. 1881Lubbock in Nature No. 618. 411 Faraday, the prince of pure experimentalists.
2. One who is fond of trying experiments, or who advocates new schemes.
1828Whately Rhet. i. iii. §2 Being regarded as a dangerous experimentalist. 1857Toulm. Smith The Parish 363 Making ‘districts’..seems..the favourite scheme of the experimentalists.
3. nonce use. One who has an experimental sense of religion.
1806A. Knox Serm. I. 34 The..disagreement between the merely moral Christian and the experimentalist. |