EMPIRIC
\ɛmpˈɪɹɪk], \ɛmpˈɪɹɪk], \ɛ_m_p_ˈɪ_ɹ_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of EMPIRIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
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Alt. of Empirical
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A quack.
By Oddity Software
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One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
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Alt. of Empirical
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A quack.
By Noah Webster.
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One whose methods are purely experimental.
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Given to or guided by experience; experimental.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Experimental rather than scientific.
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One whose methods are empirical; a quack.
By James Champlin Fernald
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One who follows only experience. A sect of physicians, who rejected all theory, and took for their guide experience alone. It was opposed to the dogmatic sect. The Empiric sect prevailed till near the time of Galen. Among its most eminent members, after Philinus and Serapion, were Apollonius, Glauoias, Bacchius of Tanagra, and Zeuxis, both disciples of Herophilus,-Heraclides of T, rentum, Cleophantus, master of Asclepiades, Menodotus of Nicomedia, and Theudas of Laodicea. They occupied themselves, chiefly, with discovering the properties of drugs, and did important service, in this manner, to medicine. At the present day, the word Empiric is only taken in a bad sense, being employed in nearly the same signification as charlatan or quack.
By Robley Dunglison
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Pertaining to or founded on experience or experiment, without regard to a priori considerations.
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One who relies solely upon observation and experiment. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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