peirastic
/pʌɪˈrastɪk/Chiefly Philosophy
adjective
Involving, or performing, an experiment; speculative, experimental, tentative.
Origin
Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Thomas Stanley (1625–1678), poet and classical scholar. From ancient Greek πειραστικός of the nature of trying, tentative, especially with reference to dialectic from πειράζειν to try + -τικός, suffix forming adjectives from verbs.
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