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- verb Present participle of
experimentalize .
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Examples
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The most recent canon appears to be that of naturalism (the Emperor's "gutter") with which artists are now experimentalizing.
William of Germany Stanley Shaw
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Mr Lee himself, the managing partner, was an ingenious and theoretically scientific man, and often experimentalizing, but in general practically with little success.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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But in a larger sense he said truly, for these men at least brought with them the vocabulary of Shakespeareor a part of iteven if the uses he made of it were beyond their comprehension, and they also brought with them that sense of ease in the language, that fine contempt for formality, that bold experimentalizing in words, which were so peculiarly Elizabethan.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 5. Archaic English Words Henry Louis 1921
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Luciana meanwhile, just like herself, had been reading an angry lecture to the rest of the party, without reflecting for a moment that she herself was entirely to blame, and without letting herself be deterred by this and other failures, from going on with her experimentalizing.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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A few minutes later I saw an Englishman go through the performance of losing four thousand francs by experimentalizing on single numbers.
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Goethe is the only instance I know of what could, with any propriety, be termed self-experimentalizing -- he who wrung the heart and turned the head of the whole reading Europe of his day by his own love passages with Madame Kestner transcribed into "The Sorrows of Werther."
Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851
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The most recent canon appears to be that of naturalism (the Emperor's “gutter “) with which artists are now experimentalizing.
William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913
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