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experimentalize, v.|ɛkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəlaɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
intr. To make or try experiments. Const. on, upon; also, in indirect passive.
1800Southey Life (1850) II. 38 You may experimentalise, if you like. 1831F. A. Kemble Let. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) II. ix. 249 Though a poet should have a strongly passionate nature, he should..be able to..experimentalize with it. 1862Thornbury Turner I. 64 A few old masters that have been experimentalized on. 1873Symonds Grk. Poet i. 2 We cannot experimentalize upon the process of ethnical development.
Hence experiˈmentalizer, experiˈmentalizing vbl. n.
1857Toulm. Smith The Parish 1 A great saving of time and trouble to the experimentalizer. 1882F. G. Kerr in Macm. Mag. XLVI. 448 The device..left the experimentaliser with a virtual mute on his hands. 1865Pall Mall G. 17 Oct. 10 They continue their guessings and experimentalizings, and wisely continue them. |