empiric
Americannoun
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a person who relies on empirical methods
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a medical quack; charlatan
adjective
Other Word Forms
- antiempiric noun
- nonempiric noun
Etymology
Origin of empiric
1520–30; < Latin empīricus < Greek empeirikós experienced, equivalent to em- em- 2 + peir- (stem of peirân to attempt) + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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Although baseball has been collecting data since the late 1800s, the empiric statistical analysis that is part of our game today dates back to 1977 with the introduction of sabermetrics.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2025
Cinema is an emotional medium and the issue of police brutality at bottom an empiric problem — can an approach that embraces the former address the latter?
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2017
But sometimes, these recommendations are based on no empiric evidence at all.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2017
President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904�an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Proudhon transposed into this purely empiric idea a moral element, by presupposing equality and justice as necessary to exchange.
From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Zenker, Ernst Viktor
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