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One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof. A political experiment can not be made in a…

Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

One who makes experiments; an experimenter. Whaterly.

To make experiments (upon); to experiment. J. S. Mill.

By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.

Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n.

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.

Experimental; of the nature of experiment. [R.]

An experimenter. [R.]

One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.

An experimenter.

A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.

Of or pertaining to a family of butterflies called Hesperidæ, or skippers. -- n.

Same as 3d Hesperian.

An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.

arden producing the golden apples. It not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides Shak.

A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A large berry with a thick rind, as a lemon or an orange.

Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.