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noun

Experimentalist n.

One who makes experiments, especially one who likes to experiment; an experimenter.

One who relies primarily on experimentation and the evidence of one's own senses; an empiricist; contrasted with theoretician or dogmatist.

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Etymology of 'Experimentalist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of education this A stood to B the positive quantity sought in the relation of a logical negative (i. e. of a negation of quantity 0), or even of a mathematic negative (i. e. of-x):—but on this new system of the author before us (whom, for the want of a better name, we shall call the Experimentalist) A for the first time bears to B the relation of a positive quantity. The terms positive and negative are sufficiently opposed to each other to confer upon our contradistinction of this system from all others a very marked and antithetic shape; and the only question upon it, which arises, ...

— The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 - With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg • Thomas de Quincey