experimentalize

English

Etymology

From experimental +‎ -ize.

Verb

experimentalize (third-person singular simple present experimentalizes, present participle experimentalizing, simple past and past participle experimentalized)

1. (transitive) To make experiments upon.
2. (intransitive) To experiment.
   • September 18 1852, John Stuart Mill, letter to Alexis de Tocqueville

     I investigate, I experimentalize; I try to grasp the facts more closely than has yet been attempted

   • 1829, Hugh Clapperton, “Travels”, in The Westminster Review:

     The Fellatas flocked from all quarters to this new seat of civilization and learning; and his growing power induced Danfodio to experimentalize upon its extent.

   • 1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw, page 295:

     Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.