Crossword-Solution: EMPIRIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Empiric | n. | One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience. |
| Empiric | n. | One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan. |
| Empiric | a. | Alt. of Empirical |
We have 35 clues for the answer “EMPIRIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Derived from observation | 1 answer |
| Based solely on experiment. | 1 answer |
| Based on practical experience. | 1 answer |
| Based on experience | 1 answer |
| Charlatan of old | 1 answer |
| Depending on experience rather than science. | 1 answer |
| Medical man who relies on experience; a quack. | 1 answer |
| person who relies on empirical methods | 1 answer |
| Observational | 1 answer |
| Relying on experience alone | 1 answer |
| Relier on experience | 1 answer |
| Based on observation | 2 answers |
| OBSERVATION and experiment, person relying solely on | 2 answers |
| Like some evidence | 3 answers |
| Experiential | 3 answers |
| Empirical | 7 answers |
| quacksalver | 23 answers |
| dissimulator | 23 answers |
| Tartuffe | 24 answers |
| defrauder | 25 answers |
| conniver | 28 answers |
| Mountebank | 29 answers |
| Dissembler. | 32 answers |
| cheater | 38 answers |
| Faker | 45 answers |
| Trickster | 51 answers |
| Miscreant | 51 answers |
| Charlatan | 51 answers |
| hypocrite | 53 answers |
| deceiver | 53 answers |
| Blackguard | 54 answers |
| Knave | 54 answers |
| Rascal | 66 answers |
| Pretender | 68 answers |
| Quack | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with EMPIRIC (5)
The empiric’s cure had been a sham, the effect, it was supposed, of some stupefying drug which more nearly caused the death of the patient than of the odious reptile that possessed him.
Now, my noble master was then under dominion of a leech, by whose advice he hath greatly profited, who had issued his commands that his patient should not that night be disturbed, on the very peril of his life.” “Thy master hath trusted some false varlet of an empiric,” said the Queen.
The empiric Wayland undertook to do his best, and as the curate conducted him to the spot, he learned that the man had been found on the highroad, about a mile from the village, by labourers, as they were going to their work on the preceding morning, and the curate had given him shelter in his house.
But though, on the one hand, the physicians of Edinburgh termed him an empiric, there were many persons, and among them some of the clergy, who, while they admitted the truth of the cures and the force of his remedies, alleged that Doctor Baptista Damiotti made use of charms and unlawful arts in order to obtain success in his practice.
Put up your purse, madam; an adept needs not your gold.” Lady Bothwell, considering this rejection of her sister’s offer as a mere trick of an empiric, to induce her to press a larger sum upon him, and willing that the scene should be commenced and ended, offered some gold in turn, observing that it was only to enlarge the sphere of his charity.
Quotes with EMPIRIC (1)
A late arrival had the impression of lots of loud people unnecessarily grouped within a smoke-blue space between two mirrors gorged with reflections. Because, I suppose, Cynthia wished to be the youngest in the room, the women she used to invite, married or single, were, at the best, in their precarious forties; some of them would bring from their homes, in dark taxis, intact vestiges of good looks, which, however, they lost as the party progressed. It has always amazed me - …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1951–2018).