Indagatory

Full definition of indagatory

Adjective

1. indagative
• 1995, Rose-Mary Sargent, The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment, As Boyle described them, "experiments of discovery, or as for brevity sake I sometimes call them, indagatory, detecting, or exploratory ways of trial," may often use methods "very near of kind and sometimes perhaps coincident" to probatory experiments ...