experimentize

English

Etymology

From experiment +‎ -ize.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, archaic) To perform a scientific experiment.
   • 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:

     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.