experimentalize 
tnli:in</. [< rj-pei'iiiirntal + -ise.] To make ex- 
periment. Also spelled experimentalise. 
The impression . . . [of Mr. Wellcr] was that Mr. Mar- 
tin was hired by the establishment of Sawyer, late Nock- 
emorf, to take strong medicine, or to go into tits and be 
acferimmtolaed upon. l>irkms, Pickwick, xlviii. 
The old sehool has gone gone, it may be added, to the 
regret of all who do not share the modern rage for experi- 
mentalizing, and who are inclined to suspect that onr 
fathers were at least as wise as ourselves. 
Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 258. 
experimentally (eks-per-i-men'tal-i), adv. By 
experiment ; by experience or trial ; by opera- 
tion and observation of results. 
He will experimentally find the emptiness of all things. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ. Mor., iii. 22. 
It is not only reasonably to be expected, but experi- 
mentally felt, that in weak and ignorant understandings 
there are no sufficient supports for the vigorousness of a 
holy life. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), J. 751. 
The law being thus established experimentally. 
J. S. Mill, Logic. 
experimentarian (eks-per"i-men-ta'ri-an), a. 
and n. [< experiment + -arian.] I. a. Bely- 
ing upon experiments or upon experience. 
Hobbes . . . treated the experimentarian philosophers 
as objects only of contempt. D. Stewart. 
II. n. One given to making experiments. 
Another thing . . . that qualifies an experimentarian 
for the reception of revealed religion. 
Boyle, Works, V. 537. 
experimentation (eks-per"i-men-ta'shpn), n. 
[= F. experimentation; as experiment, v., + 
-ation.] The act or practice of making experi- 
ments ; the process of experimenting. 
Thus far the advantage of experimentation over simple 
observation is universally recognized: all are aware that 
it enables us to obtain innumerable combinations of cir- 
cumstances which are not to be found in nature, and so 
add to nature's experiments a multitude of experiments 
of our own. J. S. Mill, Logic, III. vii. 3. 
experimentative (eks-per-i-men'ta-tiv), n. [< 
experiment + -ative.~] Kxperimental. Coleridge. 
experimentatort (eks-per'i-men-ta-tor), n. [= 
F. experimentuteur = Sp. Pg. expcrimentador = 
It. esperimentatore, sperimentatore, < ML. experi- 
mentator, < cxperimcntare, experiment: see ex- 
periment, i'.] An experimenter. 
The examination of some of them was protracted for 
many days, the nature of the experiments themselves, and 
also the design of the experimentators, requiring such 
chasms. Boyle, Works, IV. 507. 
experimented! (eks-per'i-men-ted), p. a. 
Proved by experience. 
There be divers that make profession to have as good 
and as experimented receipts as yours. 
B. Jomon, Volpoue, ii. 1. 
experimenter (eks-per'i-meu-ter), n. One who 
makes experiments ; one skilled in experi- 
ments ; an experimentalist. 
experimentist (eks-per'i-men-tist), n. [< ex- 
periment + -ist.~\ An experimenter. 
experimentize (eks-per'i-men-tiz), . i. ; pret. 
and pp. experim entized, ppr. experimentizing. [< 
experiment + -JOT.] To try experiments; ex- 
periment. Also spelled experimentise. 
It has been one of the greatest oversights in my work 
that I did not experimentise on such [small and incon- 
spicuous] flowers. 
Darwin, Cross and Self Fertilisation, p. 387. 
experimentum (eks-per-i-men'tum), n. ; pi. cx- 
perimenta (-ta). [L.: see experiment.] An ex- 
periment Experimentum crucis, a crucial or de- 
ciding experiment or test. See criteial, 3. 
experrectiont (eks-pe-rek'shon), n. [< L. ex- 
perrectus, pp. of expergisci, be awakened, 
awake, < expergere, tr., wake, arouse, < ex, out, 
+ pergere, wake, arouse, pursue, proceed, go 
on, < per, through, + regere, keep straight, 
guide, direct: see regent. Cf. insurrection, res- 
urrection.] A waking up or arousing. 
The Phrygians also, imagining that God sleepeth all win- 
ter and lieth awake in the summer, thereupon celebrate 
in one season the feast of lying in bed and sleeping, in 
the other, of experrection or waking, and that with much 
drinking and belly cheer. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 1069. 
expert (eks-pert' as a. ; eks-pert' or eks'pert as 
n.), a. and n. [< ME. expert, < OF. expert, cspcrt, 
F. expert = Pr. expert, espert = Sp. Pg. experto 
= It. esperto, sperto, < L. expertus (for *expe- 
rittts; of. equiv. peritus), experienced, skilled, 
expert, pp. of experiri, tiy, put to the test, go 
through: see experience.'] I. a. L Having had 
experience; experienced; practised; trained; 
taught by use, practice, or experience. 
Experte am I thaire planntcs best to growe 
But sette hem nowe. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 97. 
And nouhte to hem of elde that bene cxperte 
In governaunce, nurture, and hom-st.'. 
Babeen Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 1. 
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2. Skilful; dexterous; adroit; having facility 
acquired by practice. 
Expert in trifles, and a cunning fool, 
Able t' express 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 to or resulting from experience ; 
due to or proceeding from one having prac- 
tical knowledge or skill: as, expert workman- 
ship ; expert testimony. 
What practice, howsoe'er expert, . . . 
Hath power to give thee as thou wert? 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ixxv. 
= Syn. Adroit, Dexterous, Expert, etc. (see adroit); train- 
ed, practised. See skilfid. 
II. n. 1. An experienced, skilful, or prac- 
tised person ; one skilled or thoroughly inform- 
ed 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 discussed by an assembly of wise, able, 
and impartial expert*, 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 espe- 
cial aptness in literary quotation, an expert in social sci- 
ence 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 sub- 
ject, presumably not within the knowledge of 
men generally, may testify in a court of justice 
to matters of opinion thereon, as distinguish- 
ed from ordinary witnesses, who can in gen- 
eral testify only to facts. =Syn. Adept, Expert. See 
adept, n. 
expert (eks-perf), ' ' [< L. expertus, pp. of 
experiri, try, test : see expert, a.] If. To experi- 
ence. 
We deeme of Death as doome of ill desert ; 
But knewe we, fooles, what it us bringes until, 
Dye would we dayly, once it to expert ! 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., November. 
2. [< expert, n.] To examine (books, accounts, 
etc. ) as an expert ; have examined by an expert : 
as, the accounts have been experted. [Colloq.] 
expertly (eks-pert'li), adv. [< ME. expertly; 
< expert + -fy 2 .] If. By actual experiment. 
Unbynde it thenne, and there expertly se 
How 0011 tree is in til an other ronne. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 162. 
2. In an expert or skilful or dexterous man- 
ner ; adroitly ; with readiness and accuracy, 
expertness (eks-pert'nes), . The quality of 
being expert; skill derived from practice; read- 
iness; dexterity; adroitness: as, expertness in 
musical performance, or in seamanship ; ex- 
pertness in reasoning. 
You shall demand of him whether one Captain Dumain 
be i' the camp, a Frenchman ; what his reputation is with 
the duke, what his valour, honesty, and expertness in wars. 
Shak., All's Well, iv. 3. 
There were no marks of expertness in the trick played by 
the woman of Endor upon the perturbed mind of Saul. 
T. Coyan, Theol. Disquisitions, ii. 
= Syn. Facility, Knack, etc. See readiness. 
expetiblet (eks-pet'i-bl), a. [< L. expetibilia, 
desirable, < cxpetere, desire, long for, seek af- 
ter, < ex, out, + petere, seek: see petition, com- 
pete.'] Fit to be sought after; desirable. 
An establishment . . . is more expetible than an appoint- 
ment in some circumstances more perfect, without the 
same uniform order and peace therewith. 
T. Puller, Moderation of Church of Eng. , p. 410. 
expiable (eks'pi-a-bl), a. [< OF. expiable, < L. 
as if "expiabilis, < expiare, expiate: see expi- 
ate.] Capable of being expiated or atoned for: 
as, an expiable offense ; expiable guilt. 
They allow them to be such as deserve punishment, 
although such as are easily pardonable : remissible, of 
course, or expiable by an easie penitence. 
Feltham, Resolves, ii. 9. 
The Gregorian purgatory supposed only an expiation of 
small and light faults, as immoderate laughter, imperti- 
nent talking, which nevertheless he himself sayes are ex- 
piable by fear of death. 
Jer. Taylor, Diss. from Popery, II. ii. 2. 
expiamentt (eks'pi-a-ment), . [< L. as if *ex- 
)>iitmentum,<. expiare, expiate: see expiate."] An 
expiation. Bailey, 1727. 
expiate (eks'pi-at), r. t. ; pret. and pp. expiated, 
ppr. expiating. [< L. expiatus, pp. of expiare 
(> It. espiare = Sp. Pg. expiar = f. expier), atone 
for, make satisfaction for, < ex, out, + pinre, 
appease, propitiate, make atonement, < pins, 
devout, pious: see pious.'] 1. To atone for; 
make satisfaction or reparation for; remove 
or endeavor to remove the moral guilt of (a 
expirant 
crime or evil act), or counteract its evil effects, 
by suffering a penalty or doing some counter- 
balancing good. 
It is true indeed, and granted, that the blood of Christ 
alone can expiate sin. lip. Atterlinry, Sermons, I. ii. 
The treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury. 
Clarendon, Great Rebellion. 
The pernicious maxims early imbibed by Mr. Fox led 
him . . . iutwgreat faults which, though afterwards nobly 
expiated, were never forgotten. Macaulay, Lord Ho 
2. To avert by certain observances. [Bare.] 
Frequent showers of stones . . . could ... be expiated 
only by bringing to Kome Cybele. 
T. II. Dyer, Hist. Kome, 2. 
expiate! (eks'pi-at), a. [< L. expiatus, pp. : see 
the verb.] Expired. 
Make haste, the hour of death is expiate. 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 3. 
expiation (eks-pi-a'shon), n. [= F. expiation 
= Pr. expiacio = Sp. expiacion = Pg. expiacao 
= It. espiaeione, < L. expiatio(n-), < expiare, ex- 
piate: see expiate.'] 1. The act of expiating, 
or of making satisfaction or reparation for an 
offense ; atonement ; reparation. See atone- 
men t. 
His liberality seemed to have something in it of self- 
abasement and t'j:i/iitt>i>n. Irrinri. 
Our Lord offered an expiation for our sins. Church Diet. 
In the expiation* of the heathen peoples the main thing 
is to have enough suffered; for the apprehended wrath 
will be stayed when the rages of the gods are glutted. 
Ihtshnell, Forgiveness and Law, p. 83. 
2. The means by which atonement, satisfac- 
tion, or reparation of crimes is made ; an atone- 
ment. 
Those shadowy expiations weak, 
Tile blood of bulls and goats. 
Milton, P. L., xii. 291. 
3f. An observance or ceremony intended to 
avert omens or prodigies. 
Upon the birth of such monsters, the Grecians and Ro- 
mans did use divers sorts of expiations, and to go about 
their principal cities with many solemn ceremonies and 
sacrifices. SirJ. Ilayirartl. 
The Great Day Of Expiation, an annual solemnity of 
the Jews, observed on the 10th day of the month Tisri, 
which answers to onr September. 
expiational (eks-pi-a'shon-al), a. [< expiation 
+ -al.] Pertaining to, characterized by, or for 
the purpose of expiation. 
The most intensely expiational form of Christianity, in- 
stead of being most robust and steadfast, is poorest. 
Bnshnell, Forgiveness and Law, p. 91. 
expiator (eks'pi-a-tpr), n. [= It. espiatore, <. 
LL. expiator, < L. expiare, expiate: see expiate.] 
One who expiates. 
expiatorioust (eks"pi-a-to'ri-us), a. [< LL. ex- 
piatorius: see expiatory.'] Same as expiatory. 
Which are not to be expounded as if ordination did con- 
fer the first grace, which in the schools is understood only 
to be expiatorious. Jer. Taylor, Office Ministerial, 7. 
expiatory (eks'pi-a-to-ri), a. [= F. expiatoire 
= Sp. Pg. expiatorio = It. espiatorio, < LL. ex- 
piatorius, < L. expiare, pp. expiatus, expiate: 
see expiate, expiator.] Having the power to 
make atonement or expiation ; offered by way 
of expiation. 
His voluntary death for others prevailed with God, and 
had the force of an expiator// sacrifice. 
Ilooker, Eccles. Polity. 
expilatet (eks'pi-lat), v. t. [< L. expilattts, pp. 
ofexpilare (> It. espilare = Pg. expilar), pillage, 
plunder, < ex, out, + pilare, pillage, plunder: 
see compile and pillage."] To pillage ; plunder. 
expilationt (eks-pi-la'shon), n. [= Pg. expi- 
laqao = It. espilazione, < L. expiliatio(n-), < ef- 
pilare, pillage: see expilate."] The act of pil- 
laging or plundering; the act of committing 
waste. 
So many grievances of the people, expilations of the 
church, abuses to the state, entrenchments upon the roy- 
alties of the crown, were continued. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 100. 
Within the same space [the last six months of his reign] 
he [Edward VI.] lost by way of gift about twice as much of 
the relics of the monastic spoil as he had lost in the whole 
of any of his former years (except the first two). . . . This 
final expilation, for such it was, avenged upon the son the 
sacrilege of the father. 
/{. II'. Dixan, Hist. Church of Eng., xxi. 
expilatort (eks'pi-la-tpr), n. [= It. cspilatore, 
< L. txpilator, < expildrc, pillage: see expilate.] 
One who expilates or pillages. 
Where profit hath prompted, no age hath wanted such 
miners [for sepulchral treasure], for which the most bar- 
barous expilators found the iin^t civil rfcetorlck, 
.s'i> T. llrinrne. Urn-burial, iii. 
expirable (eks-pir'a-bl), a. [< expire + -auk.] 
That may eoine to an end. Smart. 
expirant '(eks-pir'ant). n. [= F. cxpimiit = Sp. 
espiratite, < L. cxpiran(t-)s, f'.rx/>iriin(t-)x, ppr. of 
