单词 | empirie |
释义 | empirien. = empiricism n. (in various senses).In later use chiefly in philosophical contexts (see the etymology), and not fully naturalized in English. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > ignorantly quacking1648 empirie1651 empiricism1658 quackery1675 routinism1829 1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours i. vi. 23 Even Physicians do not disdain Empyrie [L. empiriam]. 1739 D. Turner Disc. Fevers (ed. 3) To Rdr. p. vi The Patient may suffer less under mere Empery, than by one that is bigotted to some specious Hypothesis. 1875 W. James in N. Amer. Rev. July 196 A season of headache and apathy, with bald Empirie, the mere registration of facts, for a diversion, ensued, as was natural after such a metaphysical debauch. 1996 W. D. Connor Tattered Banners xiv Without a good deal of empirie in approach to the whole disorderly mess of Russia today..it will be difficult to tell what one may be excluding, and why. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1651 |
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