Definitions for empiric

empiric em·pir·ic

Spelling: [em-pir-ik]
IPA: /ɛmˈpɪr ɪk/

Empiric is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in empiric (ceiimpr).

Definitions for empiric

noun

  1. a person who follows an empirical method.
  2. a quack; charlatan.

adjective

  1. empirical.

Origin of empiric

1520-30; Latin empīricus Greek empeirikós experienced, equivalent to em- em-2 + peir- (stem of peirân to attempt) + -ikos -ic

Examples for empiric

No institutions or principles are spared its empiric handling.

He was by no means an empiric, as some were whom Charles II.

I was resuscitated by the empiric with cold, and recovered by the theorist with heat.

As to Doleman, the poor man goes on trying and hoping with his empiric.

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

Formerly farming was looked upon as a profession easily understood, and successfully pursued only by an empiric.

I shall be at your service, madam, when that empiric has given the patient up.

He appears to prefer the empiric method in love as in philosophy.

Cherokee medicine is an empiric development of the fetich idea.

He re-told the insult put upon himself in the epithet of empiric.

Word Value for empiric
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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