empiric

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empiric

a 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 experiment

em·pir·ic

(ĕm-pîr′ĭk)

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).]

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empiric

(ɛmˈpɪrɪk)

1. a person who relies on empirical methods

2. (Medicine) a medical quack; charlatan

adj

a variant of empirical

[C16: from Latin empīricus, from Greek empeirikos practised, from peiran to attempt]

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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]

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Adj.	1.	empiric - relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment" empirical 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" empirical

Translations

empirisch

empirique

empirico

empiric

adj = empirical

n → Empiriker(in) m(f)

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em·pir·ic

a. empírico-a, que se basa en observaciones prácticas.

___ treatment → tratamento empírico.

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* An idealistic monist who long puzzled the philosophers of that time with his denial of the existence of matter, but whose clever argument was finally demolished when the new empiric facts of science were philosophically generalized.

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"We will thwart Rappaccini yet," thought he, chuckling to himself, as he descended the stairs; "but, let us confess the truth of him, he is a wonderful man--a wonderful man indeed; a vile empiric, however, in his practice, and therefore not to be tolerated by those who respect the good old rules of the medical profession."

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"There is another thing," murmured Mazarin; "there are empirics and charlatans.

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