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n. One who is guided by practical experience rather than precepts or theory.

n. An unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan.

adj. Empirical.

adj. empirical

n. A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.

n. Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.

n. Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.

n. One who follows an empirical method; one who relies upon practical experience.

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.

adj. Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.

adj. Depending upon experience or observation alone, without due regard to science and theory; -- said especially of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight.

Same as empirical.

Versed in physical experimentation: as, an empiric alchemist.

Of or pertaining to the medical empirics.

n. One of an ancient sect of Greek physicians who maintained that practice or experience, and not theory, is the foundation of the science of medicine.

n. An experimenter in medical practice, destitute of adequate knowledge; an irregular or unscientific physician; more distinctively, a quack or charlatan.

n. In general, one who depends mainly upon experience or intuition; one whose procedure in any field of action or inquiry is too exclusively empirical.

n. = Syn.2. Mountebank, etc. See quack, n.

adj. relying on medical quackery

adj. derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

"When she spikes a temperature and her heart races, we send blood cultures and give empiric antibiotics that she probably does not really need."

experiential    falsifiable    observational    experimental    verifiable    existential    trial-and-error    confirmable    a posteriori    data-based   

quack    charlatan    transcendental   

sensationalistic    smatterer    resuscitative    Baconian    wiseacre    stripy    closed-in    site-specific    stop-gap    rehabilitative