Meaning of Empiric | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
   historical
2. Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
3. Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.

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Examples

“An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.”

“[…] Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks, rather then (as they are fain to call⟳ themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke⟳ of their own⟳ Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand⟳ […]”

“[…] and must therefore swallow⟳ down Opinions, as silly People do Empiricks['] Pills, without knowing what they are made of[…]”

“The fact is, that since a good, sound⟳, honest, efficient, automatic, nonmetallic currency and standard was tampered with in 1893, India has been a happy hunting-ground for any empiric who conjured with a new scheme of currency, no matter⟳ how fantastic.”

“To the disgust of doctors, the royal family at Versailles allowed one Brun, a wandering empiric […], to administer a proprietary ‘sovereign remedy’ to the ailing monarch.”

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