a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) xi. 130 Any metempiric which does more than numerically multiply, or vary in degree, existence such as we have it in experience, or which postulates beings whose qualities bear no resemblance to those of experience, must be at once rejected.

1883 Mind 8 270 Whatever has been hitherto proved..in Metaphysic as to the conscious states of the inquirer himself, may now be extended to other consciousness (though there can no longer be direct verification) and taken up into Metempiric.

1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2749/2 Metampiric,..the science of things outside our ordinary experience.

a1881 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric (1883) iii. 19 Every man who believes in the consciousness of his fellows—every man who uses the word ‘we’—is a Metempiric.

1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2750/1 The one who uses them [sc. metempirical methods] is a metempiric or metampiricist.

1886 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) 45 1017 Beyond..experimental data to the affirmation of invisible strata and metempiric law.

1892 Philos. Rev. 1 546 Other views..are far concreter and in closer interaction with the sciences than a metempiric misconception like the Absolute.