Empiric

Definition: Empiric

Empiric

Adjective

1. (archaic) relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment".

Date "empiric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Health	Empirical; depending upon experience or observation alone, without using scientific method or theory. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deceiver	Quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Empiric

Etymologies containing "empiric": Emporium. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Empiric" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (by rule of thumb, empiric, empirical, empirically, quack).

Domain	Title
Books	Empiric Oral Therapy for Today's Community - Aquired Infections (Chemotherapy) (reference) Rise of Surgery from Empiric Craft to Scientific Discipline (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Although no empiric studies have evaluated the efficacy of these interventions, they are supported by substantial clinical experience. (references)
		Some patients with urge or mixed incontinence, or those who are not helped by empiric therapy or operation, also will require more complete urodynamic testing. (references)
		Whether a source of infection can be identified or not, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy must be initiated promptly in the febrile neutropenic patient. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Empiric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Empiric" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	80%	4	175,879
Unclassified Items	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "empiric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		empirik (empirical, empiricist, experimental). (various references)

Arabic		‏إبن التجربة, ‏دجال (fake, humbug, juggler, sham). (various references)

Bulgarian		опитен (adept, capable, consummate, empirical, experienced, experimental, expert, good, grey, laboratory, old, old hand, perfect, pilot, practised, proficient, ripe, scientific, skilful, skilled, skillful, sophisticated, thorough-paced, versed, veteran, whizbang), емпиричен (empirical), емпирик (empiricist), лекар шарлатанин, практик (practician). (various references)

Czech		empirický (empirical). (various references)

Danish		empirisk. (various references)

Dutch		empirisch (experimental). (various references)

Farsi		درمحلی قراردادن , درمحل معینی قراردادن . (various references)

Finnish		empiirinen, kokemusperäinen. (various references)

French		empirique (empirical). (various references)

German		empirisch (empirical, empirically), empiriker (empiricist). (various references)

Greek		κομπογιαννίτησ (quack), εμπειρικόσ (empirical), εμπειρικός. (various references)

Hungarian		empirikus (a posteriori, empirical), tapasztalatokra építõ személy, tapasztalati (empirical, experimental, practical). (various references)

Italian		empirico (empirical, empiricist, experiential, healer). (various references)

Manx		treealagh (assertive, empirical, tentative). (various references)

Pig Latin		empiricay

Portuguese		empírico, império (empire, governance), charlatão (charlatan, Gabby, imposter, medicate, mountebank, pettifogger, quack, quacksalver, sciolist). (various references)

Romanian		empirist (empiricist), empiric (by rule of thumb, empirical, empirically, quack), pragmatic (empirical, pragmatic, pragmatically), doctor şarlatan. (various references)

Russian		эмпирический (empirical, experiential). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		empirijski, empiričar. (various references)

Spanish		empírico (empirical, empiricist). (various references)

Swedish		erfarenhetsmässig (acquired by experience, empirical), empirisk (empirical, experimental), empiriker (empiricism, empiricist), kvacksalvare (charlatan, mountebank, quack, quack doctor), kvacksalvar- (empirical), charlatan (charlatan, quack). (various references)

Turkish		görgül (empirical), deneysel (empirical, experimental, tentative), bilginin deneyimle edinildiği taraftarı kimse, şarlatan (charlatan, croaker, dabbler, fake, faker, humbug, mountebank, phoney, phony, quack, sciolist, wag). (various references)

Ukranian		суто практична людина, вузькопрактичний (empirical), емпіричний (empirical, experiential), емпірик (empiricist). (various references)

Vietnamese		theo lối kinh nghiệm (empirical), người theo chủ nghĩa kinh nghiệm lang băm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "empiric": empirical, empirically, empiricism, empiricisms, empiricist, empiricists, empirics. (additional references)
	Words containing "empiric": nonempirical, semiempirical, unempirical. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Empiric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emiri, empeiria, emperic, empirick, empiry, empri, epiproct, Meziriac, oneiric. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-m-p-r"
	-2 letters: crime, crimp, cripe, icier, price, prime, primi.
	-3 letters: cire, emic, emir, epic, impi, mice, mire, miri, peri, perm, pice, pier, prim, rice, rime, ripe.
	-4 letters: cep, ice, imp, ire, mir, pec, per, pic, pie, rec, rei, rem, rep, rim, rip.
	-5 letters: em, er, me, mi, pe, pi, re.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-m-p-r"
	+1 letter: crimpier, empirics, epimeric, misprice.
	+2 letters: crimpiest, empirical, epicurism, epidermic, imprecise, mispriced, misprices, primacies, scrimpier.
	+3 letters: empiricism, empiricist, epicardium, epicurisms, micropipet, premeiotic, scrimpiest, semitropic, spermicide.
	+4 letters: bimorphemic, cypripedium, empirically, empiricisms, empiricists, hemimorphic, hemispheric, imprecating, imprecation, imprecisely, imprecision, microcopies, micropipets, misperceive, pericardium, pericranium, perithecium, piezometric, planimetric, recompiling, semitropics, spermicidal, spermicides, spirometric, unempirical.
	+5 letters: cypripediums, dopaminergic, epicureanism, epigrammatic, hyperlipemic, imperceptive, impercipient, imperfection, imperfective, impertinence, impertinency, importancies, imprecations, imprecisions, improvidence, micropipette, microscopies, minicomputer, misperceived, misperceives, multipicture, necrophilism, nonempirical, perionychium, polarimetric, semiprecious, semitropical, thermophilic.
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