a. and sb. Obs. [f. EXPERIMENT sb. + -ARIAN.]
A. adj. Relying on experiment; = EXPERIMENTAL B. sb. One who relies on experiment, an experimental philosopher.
1661. Boyle, Examen, v. (1682), 46. Mr. Hobbs is pleased to call us Experimentarian Philosophers. Ibid. (1690), Chr. Virtuoso, I. Wks. 1772, V. 536. Another thing that qualifies an experimentarian for the reception of a revealed religion … is that [etc.].
1816. D. Stewart, in Encycl. Brit., Supp. I. 62. Hobbes … treating the experimentarian philosophers as objects only of contempt.
