Empiric Definition

empiric
adjective
  1. relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment"
  2. derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known"

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