empiric

How to use empiric in a sentence

• The count considered Lincoln an “honest man of nature, perhaps an empiric, doctoring with innocent juices from herbs.”

  President Lincoln’s Twitter Mole | Kevin Peraino | October 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

• Clemens never had any quarrel with the theory of Christian Science or mental healing, or with any of the empiric practices.

  Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine

• The theorist disdains experience—the empiric rejects principle.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. | Various

• The great intellectual forces of the nineteenth century allied themselves to two movements, the transcendental and the empiric.

  The War Upon Religion | Rev. Francis A. Cunningham

• The surplus labour of the latter is an empiric fact, demonstrable by experience, which needs no deductive proof.

  Karl Marx | Achille Loria