noun. One who is guided by practical experience rather than precepts or theory.

noun. An unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan.

adjective. Empirical.

Same as empirical.

Versed in physical experimentation: as, an empiric alchemist.

Of or pertaining to the medical empirics.

noun. One of an ancient sect of Greek physicians who maintained that practice or experience, and not theory, is the foundation of the science of medicine.

noun. An experimenter in medical practice, destitute of adequate knowledge; an irregular or unscientific physician; more distinctively, a quack or charlatan.

noun. In general, one who depends mainly upon experience or intuition; one whose procedure in any field of action or inquiry is too exclusively empirical.

noun. = Syn.2. Mountebank, etc. See quack, n.

noun. One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.

noun. 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.

adjective. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.

adjective. 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.

adjective. See under Formula.

adjective. empirical

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

noun. Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.

noun. Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.

adjective. relying on medical quackery

adjective. derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

"Charlatan is an opprobrious term, but "empiric" literally means one who follows experience instead of dogma, and should therefore be an honorable designation; but as the medical profession has always been dogmatic, and therefore hostile to empiricism, or fidelity to experience, it has made empiricism an opprobrious term."

a posteriori  confirmable  data-based  empirical  existential  

Baconian  antiretroviral  black-cloaked  closed-in  legitimist  

charlatan  quack  transcendental