Definizione monolingua

empiric

empiric (plural empirics)

1. A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
2. Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
3. Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books 2001, p. 257:

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

   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 24,

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

empiric

1. empirical

Definizione dizionario empiric

	empirico
	Relying upon or derived from observation or experiment.

Altri significati:

An untrained physician; a quack.

empirical

Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.

A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.

Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan.