• EMPIRIC, EMPIRICAL

empiricus (Cic.; ἐμπειρικός; obtaining his knowledge of medicine from practice and experiments): qui se ἐμπειρικον ab experientia nominat (Cels., praef.; but some of these were “nonmediocres viri”). To consider anything a merely empiric art, in usu tantum et experimentis aliquid ponere (Cels.): to consider anything more than a merely empiric art, (nisi corporum rerumque ratione comperta) non satis potentem usum esse proponere (Cels.). An empiric, empiricus (sc. medicus): pharmacopola circumforaneus (quack).