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empirica person who depends on experience or observation alone; a quack; charlatan
Not to be confused with:empirical – verifiable: empirical evidence; practical; pragmatic; derived from or guided by experience or experimentem·pir·ic E0117000 (ĕm-pîr′ĭk)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 empīricus, from Greek empeirikos, experienced, from empeiros, skilled : en-, in; see en-2 + peirān, to try (from peira, try, attempt; see per- in Indo-European roots).]empiric (ɛmˈpɪrɪk) n1. a person who relies on empirical methods2. (Medicine) a medical quack; charlatanadj a variant of empirical[C16: from Latin empīricus, from Greek empeirikos practised, from peiran to attempt]em•pir•ic (ɛmˈpɪr ɪk)
n. 1. a person who is guided primarily by experience. 2. a quack; charlatan. adj. 3. empirical. [1520–30; < Latin empīricus < Greek empeirikós experienced <émpeir(os) practiced] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | empiric - relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment"empiricalarchaicism, 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"empirical |
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em·pir·ic (em-pir'ik), 1. A member of a school of Graeco-Roman physicians (late BCE to early CE) who placed their confidence in and based their practice purely on experience, avoiding all speculation, theory, or abstract reasoning; they were little concerned with causes or with correlating symptoms to gain a true understanding of a disease, even holding basic knowledge, physiology, pathology, and anatomy in low esteem and of no value in practice. 2. Modern: testing a hypothesis by careful observation, hence rationally based on experience. 3. Founded on practical experience, rather than on reasoning alone, but not established scientifically in contrast to rational1. 4. Relating to an empiric1. [see empirical] em·pir·ic (em-pir'ik) 1. Founded on practical experience, rather than on reasoning alone, but not proved scientifically, in contrast to rational (1) 2. Based on careful observational testing of a hypothesis; rational. em·pir·ic (em-pir'ik) Founded on practical experience, rather than on reasoning alone, but not established scientifically, in contrast to rational. EMPIRIC
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Related to empiric: Empiric treatment, Empiric therapySynonyms for empiricadj relying on medical quackerySynonymsRelated Wordsadj derived from experiment and observation rather than theorySynonyms |