"empiric" in the adjective sense
1. empiric, empirical
relying on medical quackery
"empiric treatment"
2. empirical, empiric
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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