Word Meanings - EXPERIMENTARIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n.

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• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• EXPERIMENTATOR
  An experimenter.
• BOYLE'S LAW
  See LAW
• EXPERIMENTER
  One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
• EXPERIMENTATION
  The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.
• RELY
  To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in. Go in thy native innocence;
• EXPERIMENTALLY
  By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.
• EXPERIENCER
  1. One who experiences. 2. An experimenter. Sir. K. Gigby.
• PHILOSOPHER
  1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. 2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life;
• EXPERIMENT
  1. Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test,
• EXPERIMENTARIAN
  Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n.
• EXPERIMENTALIST
  One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.
• EXPERIENCE TABLE
  A table of mortality computed from the experience of one or more life-insurance companies.
• EXPERIMENTALIZE
  To make experiments ; to experiment. J. S. Mill.
• EXPERIMENTATIVE
  Experimental; of the nature of experiment.
• EXPERIENCE
  experiens, , p. pr. of experiri, expertus, to try; ex out + the root 1. Trial, as a test or experiment. She caused him to make experience Upon wild beasts. Spenser. 2. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether
• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• CREATURELY
  Creatural; characteristic of a creature. "Creaturely faculties." Cheyne.
• MERELY
  1. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman. 2. Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift. Syn. -- Solely; simply;
• YARELY
  In a yare manner. Shak.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• SORELY
  In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• ENTIRELY
  1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser.
• EPICURELY
  Luxuriously. Nash.
• REEXPERIENCE
  A renewed or repeated experience.
• PURELY
  1. In a pure manner . 2. Nicely; prettily. Halliwell.
• FUTURELY
  In time to come. Raleigh.
• FEATURELY
  Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome. Featurely warriors of Christian chivalry. Coleridge.
• DEMURELY
  In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.