empiric

• It is well that men of lofty genius and pure patriotism should learn, equally with the most shallow empiric or the most self-seeking demagogue, that false steps in politics can rarely be retraced; that concessions once made can seldom, if ever, be recalled, but are usually the stepping-stones to others still more extensive; that what it would have been easy to preserve, it is commonly impossible to repair or to restore. —  The Life of Marie Antoinette
• Our scarabs translated, rendering my “Gaah” into late-empiric English as “ Al's scent borders on the putrid .” Al noted that he could say the same of mine, so Ztang broke out a spray bulb to neutralize the odors gagging us both. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
• The older woman I'd seen on the previous week with a huge neck mass came back, and gave her the thyroxine I got in town - empiric treatment for possible goiter - try doing education about that when you can't get even one TSH, much less monitor treatment! —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
• Here, then, is the major register of The Pattern in the Carpet, a splicing together of the quotidian and empiric - memories of Hovis teasets, Margaret Tarrant pictures, Auntie Phyl's vaguely disgusting dogs - with a musing on what these objects mean when brought into a new relationship with the present. —  Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
• She spoke of him as "an empiric, a mean alchymist, a dreamer on the philosopher's stone, a false prophet, a profaner of the true worship, the self-dubbed Count Cagliostro!" —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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