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Synonyms for empirics

Grammar : Noun
Spell : em-pir-ik
Phonetic Transcription : ɛmˈpɪr ɪk

Top 10 synonyms for empirics
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Définition of empirics

Origin :
  • c.1600, from Latin empiricus "a physician guided by experience," from Greek empeirikos "experienced," from empeiria "experience," from empeiros "skilled," from en "in" (see en- (2)) + peira "trial, experiment," from PIE *per- "to try, risk." Originally a school of ancient physicians who based their practice on experience rather than theory. Earlier as a noun (1540s) in reference to the sect, and earliest (1520s) in a sense "quack doctor" which was in frequent use 16c.-19c.
  • As in impostor : noun person pretending to be something else
Example sentences :
  • The Empirics declare that they know nothing; because, as soon as looked at, they may change.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Cicero » by Anthony Trollope
  • Steele has transmitted to us some capital anecdotes of the empirics of his day.
  • Extract from : « A Book about Doctors » by John Cordy Jeaffreson
  • Here is no lack of votaries of the practical, of experimentalists, of empirics.
  • Extract from : « Views and Reviews » by Henry James
  • They had accomplished much, but it was the work mainly of empirics.
  • Extract from : « Inventions in the Century » by William Henry Doolittle
  • And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me, to the empirics that slaughter them?
  • Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade
  • And give they not the guerdon and the honour they deny me to the empirics that slaughter them?
  • Extract from : « The Cloister and the Hearth » by Charles Reade
  • He held his peace till the empirics had departed and the dwarf had covered the patient and shaken his pillows.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci » by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
  • There are many thousands of persons who believe this stuff, and endanger their lives and health by trusting to these empirics.
  • Extract from : « The Witches of New York » by Q. K. Philander Doesticks
  • Everything was conjecture, and that which rested on the evidence of facts was by the empirics received with enthusiasm.
  • Extract from : « An Epitome of the History of Medicine » by Roswell Park
  • We are mere operatives, empirics, and egotists, until we learn to think in letters instead of figures.
  • Extract from : « The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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