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/ɛmˈpɪɹɪk/ · adjective
Empirical..
An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.
[…] Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks, rather then (as they are fain to call themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke of their own Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand […]
[…] and must therefore swallow down Opinions, as silly People do Empiricks['] Pills, without knowing what they are made of[…]
The fact is, that since a good, sound, honest, efficient, automatic, nonmetallic currency and standard was tampered with in 1893, India has been a happy hunting-ground for any empiric who conjured with a new scheme of currency, no matter how fantastic.
To the disgust of doctors, the royal family at Versailles allowed one Brun, a wandering empiric […], to administer a proprietary ‘sovereign remedy’ to the ailing monarch.
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Empiric means Empirical..
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An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.
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