experimentum crucis
English
Etymology
Modern Latin. From Latin experimentum crucis, "experiment of the cross".
Noun
experimentum crucis (uncountable)
- A "crucial experiment"; a conclusive test to decide between different hypotheses.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 2:
- What remained for me but to prove, by trial, that what might be perilous to other travellers was safe to me? The “experimentum crucis” was a visit to Al-Híjaz, at once the most difficult and the most dangerous point by which a European can enter Arabia.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 2: