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empiric
/ ɛmˈpɪrɪk /
noun
- a person who relies on empirical methods
- a medical quack; charlatan
adjective
- a variant of empirical
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Other Words From
- anti·em·piric noun adjective
- nonem·piric noun adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of empiric1
C16: from Latin empīricus, from Greek empeirikos practised, from peiran to attempt
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Example Sentences
The count considered Lincoln an “honest man of nature, perhaps an empiric, doctoring with innocent juices from herbs.”
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Clemens never had any quarrel with the theory of Christian Science or mental healing, or with any of the empiric practices.
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The theorist disdains experience—the empiric rejects principle.
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The great intellectual forces of the nineteenth century allied themselves to two movements, the transcendental and the empiric.
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The surplus labour of the latter is an empiric fact, demonstrable by experience, which needs no deductive proof.
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To them both the physician and empiric owe part of their success.
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