Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

Verb

(en verb)

To conduct an experiment.

(obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.

* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

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

(obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

* 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:

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