experImentist

[Eng experiment: -ist.] One who makes experiments; an experimentalist. *ěx-pěr-I-měnt-lý, adv. [Eng. experiment;-ly.] By experiment, trial, or experience. ěx-per-I-ment-um crû-çis, phr. [Lat. = an experiment of the cro .] Science: A crucial experiment; a decisive experiment, either because nature is so put to the tor: ture, as if on a cro , that she is compelled to reveal the secret knowledge she has tried to hide, or be cause the experiment is like a finger-post of crucial form set up at the junction of roads, to direct the perplexed traveler which way to go. profe ional or scientific witne in a trial who gives *ex-pil-ā-tör, s. [Lat., from expilatus , pa. par. of expilo .] One who plunders, robs, or pillages. ex-pïr-a-ble, a . [Eng. expir (e); -able .] That may or can expire or come to an end.