empiric /em-pirˈik, formerly emˈ/

Empirical

1. A person who makes trials or experiments
2. Someone whose knowledge is obtained from experience only
3. A quack

empirˈical adjective

1. Depending on trial or experiment
2. Known or knowing only by experience

empirˈically adverb

empirˈicism /-sizm/ noun

1. The system which accepts only knowledge based on direct experience (philosophy)
2. The practice of empirical methods
3. The dependence of a physician on experience alone without a regular medical education
4. The practice of medicine without a regular education
5. Quackery

empirˈicist /-sist/ noun

Someone who practises empiricism (also adjective)

empiricūtˈic (Shakespeare emperick qutique) adjective (modelled on therapeutic; obsolete)

Empirical

empirical formula noun (chem)

A formula showing in simplest form the ratio of atoms in a molecule, giving no structural information

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