Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make experiment. Also spelled
experimentalise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make experiments (upon); to experiment.
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- verb transitive To make
experiments upon. - verb intransitive To experiment.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our readers who will experimentalize on an apron or cravat, will never again try any other method.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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There were one hundred and twenty-eight convicts that day; no small number upon which to experimentalize.
Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman
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Not that one person can lay down any rules for another that might in every particular be safely followed: we must, each for ourselves, experimentalize long and variously upon our own mind, before we can understand the mode of treatment best suited to it; and we may, perhaps, in the progress of such experiments, derive as much benefit from our mistakes themselves as if the object of our experiments had been at once attained.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady
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This friend explained the theory and practice of mesmerism, and Frank soon found that he could also experimentalize successfully.
The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies Anonymous
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It will soon be well known that the surest way to inflict pain upon you is to extol the excellences or to dwell on the happiness of others, and your failings will be considered an amusing subject for jesting observation to experimentalize upon.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends An English Lady
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Innumerable other needless lengthenings might be produced, from which we choose only preventative for preventive, and to experimentalize for to experiment.
Formations. 1908
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Yet with the characteristic caution and modesty of true genius, he continued for nine years longer to reason and experimentalize upon what is now considered one of the simplest, as it is undoubtedly the most important known law of animal nature; and it was not till the year 1628, the fifty-first of his life, that he consented to publish his discovery to the world.
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Do you experimentalize on the subject, that you calculate her paths with such nicety?
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I feared to experimentalize much on my sister, she being young at the time -- and women are always frail of construction -- but Leo was willing and ready to be a victim to science, if necessary.
A Romance of Two Worlds Marie Corelli 1889
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There were one hundred and twenty-eight convicts that day; no small number upon which to experimentalize.
Elizabeth Fry Pitman, E R 1884
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