v. rare. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]

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  1.  intr. To make an experiment or experiments.

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1847.  Darwin, in Life & Lett. (1887), I. 359. I thought I would experimentise on Falconer and Bunbury.

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1860.  Chamb. Jrnl., XIV. 313. Sir Thomas Browne … experimentised unsuccessfully in spontaneous generation.

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  2.  trans. To make the subject of an experiment.

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  Hence Experimentized, -izing ppl. adjs.

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1779.  T. Twining, Recreat. & Stud. (1882), 74. He is a searching, experimentizing, active-minded man.

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1832.  Fraser’s Mag., IV. 721. Shameful experiments … which threatened destruction to the experimentised.

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