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empiric

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em·pir·ic  (m-pîrk)
n.
1. One who is guided by practical experience rather than precepts or theory.
2. An unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan.
adj.
Empirical.

[Latin empricus, from Greek empeirikos, experienced, from empeiros, skilled : en-, in; see en-2 + peirn, to try (from peira, try, attempt; see per-3 in Indo-European roots).]

empiric [ɛmˈpɪrɪk]
n
1. a person who relies on empirical methods
2. (Medicine) a medical quack; charlatan
adj
a variant of empirical
[from Latin empīricus, from Greek empeirikos practised, from peiran to attempt]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.empiric - relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment"
archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
2.empiric - derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known"
Translations
empiric
adj = empirical
nEmpiriker(in) m(f)


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Jones did not affect to consider Hiram Doolittle a perfect empiric in his profession, being in the constant habit of listening to his treatises on architecture with a kind of indulgent smile; yet, either from an inability to oppose them by anything plausible from his own stores of learning or from secret admiration, Richard generally submitted to the arguments of his co-adjutor.
On her way to the apartments of her son she had met with a new empiric.
He once more endeavored to pass the supposed empiric, scorning even the parade of threatening to use the knife, or tomahawk, that was pendent from his belt.
 
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