experimentize

verb

verb

Etymology From experiment + -ize.

Archaic To perform a scientific experiment.

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.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:

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