empiric
- a relying on medical quackery
empiric treatment - a 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
- President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico.
- As Man of the Year Stalin, too, has certain grave disqualifications, one moral, the other empiric.
- The Hollywood Herald called Strange Interlude "empiric.