EXPERIMENT Copy link • EXPERIMENT 1. v. [Vid: To EXPERIENCE; “to know by EXPERIENCE. 2. s. tentatio: tentamen (general term for trial; the former as act; the latter only in Ov., but doubtless current in prose): experimentum (trial for the purpose of obtaining experience): periculum (trial attended with risk): periclitatio (with more abstruse meaning than periculum; e.g., herbarum utilitates longinqui temporis usu et periclitatione percipimus): conatus; plur., conata (endeavors). An unhappy experiment, res infelicis operae; res infeliciter tentata; conatus frustra captus: to make an experiment, periculum facere: conatum facere or incipere.