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Empire vs Empiric - What's the difference?

empire | empiric |

As nouns the difference between empire and empiric

is that empire is a political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority while empiric is a member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.

As an adjective empiric is

empirical.

empire

English

(wikipedia empire)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
  • A group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to a foreign power.
  • A state ruled by an emperor.
  • An expansive and wealthy corporation.
    • the McDonald's fast food empire

    Related terms

    * emperor * imperial * imperium

    Derived terms

    * American Empire * British Empire * First French Empire * German Empire * Holy Roman Empire * Portuguese Empire * Roman Empire * Second French Empire * Spanish Empire * empirehood * global empire * colonial empire

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    empiric

    English

    Alternative forms

    * empirick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (head)
  • empirical

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
  • Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
  • 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), , 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 […].
  • * John Locke
    • Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills.
  • *2002 , , 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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