EM'PIRIC, noun [Gr. to attempt; Latin empiricus.] Literally, one who makes experiments. Hence its appropriate signification is, a physician who enters on practice without a regular professional education, and relies on the success of his own experience. Hence, the word is used also for a quack, an ignorant pretender to medical skill, a charlatan. EMPIR'IC
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