| EMPIRE | • empire n. A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations… • empire n. A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress. • empire n. The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them)… |
| EMPIRES | • empires n. Plural of empire. • EMPIRE n. a dominion of peoples and nations under the same power. |
| EMPIRIC | • empiric adj. Empirical. • empiric n. (Historical) A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience. • empiric n. Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist. |
| EMPIRICAL | • empirical adj. Pertaining to or based on experience (often, in contrast with having a basis in theoretical explanation). • empirical adj. Pertaining to, derived from, or testable by observations made using the physical senses or using instruments… • empirical adj. (Philosophy of science) Verifiable by means of scientific experimentation. |
| EMPIRICALLY | • empirically adv. Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge. • empirically adv. (Sciences) Based on data gathered in the real world. • EMPIRICAL adv. relying on or derived from observation or experiment; guided by practical experience rather than theory, also EMPIRIC. |
| EMPIRICALNESS | • empiricalness n. Quality of being empirical. • EMPIRICAL n. relying on or derived from observation or experiment; guided by practical experience rather than theory, also EMPIRIC. |
| EMPIRICALNESSES | • EMPIRICALNESS n. EMPIRICAL, relying on or derived from observation or experiment; guided by practical experience rather than theory, also EMPIRIC. |
| EMPIRICALS | • EMPIRICAL n. in statistics, the posterior probability of an event. |
| EMPIRICISM | • empiricism n. (Medicine, now chiefly historical) Medicine as practised by an empiric, founded on mere experience… • empiricism n. (Philosophy) A doctrine which holds that the only or, at least, the most reliable source of human knowledge… • empiricism n. A pursuit of knowledge purely through experience, especially by means of observation and sometimes by experimentation. |
| EMPIRICISMS | • empiricisms n. Plural of empiricism. • EMPIRICISM n. pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment. |
| EMPIRICIST | • empiricist n. An advocate or supporter of empiricism. • EMPIRICIST n. an empiric. |
| EMPIRICISTS | • empiricists n. Plural of empiricist. • EMPIRICIST n. an empiric. |
| EMPIRICS | • empirics n. Plural of empiric. • EMPIRIC n. one who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience. |
| EMPIRICUTIC | • EMPIRICUTIC adj. (obsolete) empirical. |