different between empiric vs conceptional

English

Alternative forms

• empirick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French empirique, from Latin empiricus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (empeirikós, “experienced”), from ???????? (empeiría, “experience, mere experience or practice without knowledge, especially in medicine, empiricism”), from ???????? (émpeiros, “experienced or practised in”), from ?? (en, “in”) + ????? (peîra, “a trial, experiment, attempt”).

Adjective

empiric

1. Empirical.

Translations

Noun

empiric (plural empirics)

1. (historical) A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
2. Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
3. Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
   • , New York Review, Books, 2001, p.257:

     An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.

   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p.24:

     […] Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks, rather then (as they are fain to call themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke of their own Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand […]

   • Swallow down opinions as silly people do empiric;s' pills.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p.33:

     To the disgust of doctors, the royal family at Versailles allowed one Brun, a wandering empiric […], to administer a proprietary ‘sovereign remedy’ to the ailing monarch.

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Further reading

• empiric in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• empiric in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• empiric at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “empiric”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French empirique and Latin emp?ricus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /em?pi.rik/

Adjective

empiric m or n (feminine singular empiric?, masculine plural empirici, feminine and neuter plural empirice)

1. empirical

Declension

Related terms

• empirism
• empirist

English

Etymology

conception +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?p??n?l/

Adjective

conceptional (comparative more conceptional, superlative most conceptional)

1. Of or relating to conception.
2. Relating to a concept, idea, or thought. (More often, conceptual.)

Derived terms

• conceptionally