Experiment
King James Dictionary [1]
EXPER'IMENT, n. L. experimentum, from experior, as in experience, which see.
A trial an act or operation designed to discover some unknown truth, principle or effect, or to establish it when discovered. Experiments in chimistry disclose the qualities of natural bodies. A series of experiments proves the uniformity of the laws of matter. It is not always safe to trust to a single experiment. It is not expedient to try many experiments in legislation.
A political experiment cannot be made in a laboratory, nor determined in a few hours.
EXPER'IMENT, To make trial to make an experiment to operate on a body in such a manner as to discover some unknown fact, or to establish it when known. Philosophers experiment on natural bodies for the discovery of their qualities and combinations.
1. To try to search by trial. 2. To experience. Not used.
EXPER'IMENT, To try to know by trial. Little used.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( n.) Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.
(2): ( v. t.) To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.
(3): ( v. t.) To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; - often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.
(4): ( n.) Experience.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
Experiment . In 2 Corinthians 9:13 ‘experiment’ means proof: ‘by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God.’ It is proof arising out of experience, as in Hall, Works , iii. 467: ‘We have known, indeed, some holy souls, which out of the generall precepts of piety, and their own happy experiments of God’s mercy, have, through the grace of God, grown to a great measure of perfection this way; which yet might have been much expedited and compleated, by those helps which the greater illumination and experience of others might have afforded them.’ Cf. preced. article.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [4]
δοκιμή. Simply 'proof.' 2 Corinthians 9:13 .
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
eks - per´i - ment ( δοκιμή , dokimḗ , "approvedness," "tried character"): "The experiment of this ministration" ( 2 Corinthians 9:13 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) "the proving of you by his ministration"), i.e. the sincerity of their Christian profession was evidenced by their liberal contribution.
