Also 7, 9 (erron.) -or. [f. EXPERIMENT v. + -ER1.] One who experiments; one who makes or tries experiments.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., c j b. You see, how the Mechanicien and Experimenter … are … tought.
1660. Boyle, New Exp. Phys.-Mech., i. (1682), 17. That noble experimenter—Monsieur Pascal.
1694. Slare, in Phil. Trans., XVIII. 203. The Experimentors of this Age.
a. 1774. Goldsm., Exper. Philos. (1776), I. 293. A work of this kind would require assiduity in the experimenter.
1816. J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 87. The experimentor should have the weights of his globe in air and in water.
1830. Sir J. Herschel, Stud. Nat. Phil., 319. Dilatation of solids has been made a subject of repeated and careful measurement by several experimenters.
