EMPIR'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to experiments or experience. 1. Versed in experiments; as an empiric alchimist. 2. Known only by experience; derived from experiment; used and applied without science; as empiric skill; empiric remedies. I have avoided that empirical morality that cures one vice by means of another.
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