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experimentally, adv.|ɛkˌspɛrɪˈmɛntəlɪ|
[f. experimental a. + -ly2.]
1. By experience; as the result of experience.
1593R. Harvey Philad. 106 Trusting none, but which they find certainly, and experimentally true. 1644Bp. Hall Serm. Rem. Wks. (1660) 110 Those solid divines that experimentally know what belongs to the healing of a sinful soul. 1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 25, I speak experimentally: for I..took several..such poysonous Medicines. a1716South Serm. (1744) VII. vii. 135 A king..experimentally acquainted with the ways..of flatterers. 1833Lamb Elia (1860) 367, I do not understand these matters experimentally. 1836W. Burgh (title), The Divinity of Christ experimentally Considered.
2. By means of experiment.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. iv. 112 Thus was it..experimentally refuted by one Sestius a Physitian. 1684–5Boyle Min. Waters Advt., The way of experimentally exploring portions of a Mineral Water. 1762Foote Orator i. Wks. 1799 I. 205 Several churches and chapels..where the sleep-compelling power will be experimentally demonstrated to exist. 1793Beddoes Math. Evid. Ded. 7 For who ever heard of..Geometry..being proved experimentally? 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. x. 110 The curvature of the runners was determined experimentally.
3. By way of experiment.
1862Rep. Dir. E. Ind. Railw. Co. 15, I proposed a road entirely of wrought iron, experimentally, of a mile in length. |