experiment

A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

• conduct an experiment
• carry out some experiments

Experience, practical familiarity with something.obsolete

• Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, The maisters of his long experiment, And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].

To conduct an experiment.intransitive

• We're going to experiment on rats.

To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.obsoletetransitive

• The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.

To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.obsoletetransitive

• Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.

To try something to observe the results.intransitiveoften

• I want to experiment with psychedelics.