Empiric
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Literally, one who makes experiments. Hence its appropriate signification is, a physician who enters on practice without a regular professional education, and relies on the success of his own experience. Hence, the word is used also for a
quack, an ignorant pretender to medical skill, a
charlatan.
Empiric
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. One who follows an
empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.
2. One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and
unlicensed pretender; a
quack; a
charlatan.
Empirical
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Pertaining to experiments or experience.
3. Known only by experience; derived from experiment; used and applied without science; as
empiric skill;
empiric remedies.
4. I have avoided that empirical morality that cures one vice by means of another.
Empirical
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.
2. Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice,
remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as,
empiric skill,
remedies.
By experiment; according to experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.
1.
Dependence of a physician on his experience in practice, without the aid of a regular medical education.
2. The practice of medicine without a medical education. Hence,
quackery; the pretensions of a ignorant man to medical skill.
3.
Shudder to destroy life, either by the naked knife, or by the surer and safer medium of empiricism
1. The method or practice of an
empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
2. Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice;
charlatanry;
quackery.
3. The philosophical theory which attributes the origin of all our knowledge to experience.
