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experimentize

experimentize verb: to perform a scientific experiment.

Verb

experimentize (third-person singular simple present experimentizes, present participle experimentizing, simple past and past participle experimentized)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To perform a scientific experiment.
    • I think you will have to modify your belief about the difficulty of dispersal of land molluscs; I was interrupted when beginning to experimentize on the just hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.1887, Charles Darwin, “To A. R. Wallace, June 5, 1876”, in Francis Darwin, editor, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, volume II, New York: D. Appleton & Company, page 407

Forms of experimentize

third-person singular presentexperimentizes
present participleexperimentizing
past participleexperimentized
pastexperimentized

Origin of experimentize

From experiment + -ize.

Questions about experimentize

What does experimentize mean?
Experimentize means to perform a scientific experiment.
What part of speech is experimentize?
Experimentize is a verb.
What is the past tense of experimentize?
The past tense of experimentize is experimentized.

Words near experimentize in the dictionary

  1. experimentise
  2. experimentised
  3. experimentising
  4. experimentist
  5. experimentists
  6. experimentize
  7. experimentized
  8. experimentizes
  9. experimentizing
  10. experimently
  11. experiments

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