experimentist (eksperimentist)

[ experimentize (eks-per'i-men-tiz), v. i.; pret. and pp. experiment i zed, ppr. experiment i zing. [ It has been one of the greatest oversights in my work that I did not experimentise on such [small and inconspicuous] flowers. IMG:content-0928.png:[blocks in formation] Expert in trifles, and a cunning fool, Able t' expre the parts, but not dispose the whole. Dryden. The sceptic is ever expert at puzzling a debate which he finds himself unable to continue. Goldsmith, English Clergy. 3. Pertaining ning to or resulting from experience; due to or proceeding from one having praetical knowledge or skill: as, expert workmanship; expert testimony. What practice, howsoe'er expert , Hath power to give thee as thou wert? Tennyson , In Memoriam, lxxv. =Syn. Adroit , Dexterous , Expert , etc. (see adroit ); train ed, practised. See skilful . II. n. 1. An experienced, skilful, or practised person; one skilled or thoroughly informed in any particular department of knowledge or art. The point is one difficult to settle; and none can be consulted about it but natives or experts . Ticknor, Span. Lit., I. 11. To read two or three good books on any subject is equiv. alent to hearing it discu ed by an a embly of wise, able, and impartial experts , who tell you all that can be known about it. J. F. Clarke, Self-Culture, p. 313. He was a man of wide and scholarly culture, with especial aptne in literary quotation, an expert in social science and public charities. G. S. Merriam, S. Bowles, II. 68. 2. In law , a person who, by virtue of special acquired knowledge or experience on a subject, presumably not within the knowledge of men generally, may testify in a court of justice to matters of opinion thereon, as distinguished from ordinary witne es, who can in general testify only to facts.=Syn, Adept , Expert . See adept , n.