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