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A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.

tional power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism. Fleming.

sts of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics. Macaulay.

of an animal or a plant. Structural formula. (Chem.) See Rational formula, under Formula. empirical formula.

An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.

damental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere o…

The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.

d, and which is itself defined by comparison with some known magnitude, either natural or empirical, as, in the United States, the dollar for money, the pound avoirdupois for weight, the yard for length, the gallon of 8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of water at 39.8º Fahr. (about 231 cubic inches) for liquid measure, etc.; i…