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peirastic, a. rare.|paɪˈræstɪk|
Also pir-.
[ad. Gr. πειραστικ-ός of the nature of trying, tentative, f. πειρᾶν to try.]
Involving, or performing, an attempt or experiment; experimental, tentative. So † peiˈrastical = peirastic; peiˈrastically adv., in the way of attempt or experiment, tentatively.
1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. (1701) 175/1 Of Plato's Dialogues are Physick..Logick..Ethick..Politick..*Pirastick. 1800Monthly Mag. IX. 582 This work is wholly of the pirastic kind. 1859Kingsley Misc., Tennyson I. 215 One..belonging to a merely speculative and peirastic school.
a1647Sir R. Filmer Disc. Taking Use for Money (1678) 4 A Father to stir up..the industry of his Son, doth lend him an hundred pound with a *peirastical Covenant for gain not intending..to take any interest at all.
1817T. L. Peacock Melincourt xviii, Proceeding pedetentim, and opening the subject *peirastically. |