What is the meaning of empiric?

adjective

  • Relying on medical quackery.
    • usage: "empiric treatment"
  • Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory.
    • usage: "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known"
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