Word Meanings - EMPIRICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By experiment or experience; without science; in the manner of quacks.

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• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• EXPERIMENTATOR
  An experimenter.
• EXPERIMENTER
  One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• EXPERIMENT
  , To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience. Sir T. Herbert.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• QUACKSALVER
  One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. Burton.
• EXPERIMENTATION
  The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.
• EXPERIENCE
  1. To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to
• EXPERIENCER
  1. One who experiences. 2. An experimenter. Sir. K. Gigby.
• EXPERIMENTALLY
  By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• EXPERIMENTARIAN
  Relying on experiment or experience. "an experimentarian philosopher." Boyle. -- n.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• PRESCIENCE
  Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
• OMNISCIENCE
  The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.
• UNSCIENCE
  Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.
• REEXPERIENCE
  A renewed or repeated experience.
• CONSCIENCE
  consciens, p.pr. of conscire to know, to be conscious; con- + scire 1. Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham. 2. The faculty, power,
• CONSCIENCED
  Having a conscience. "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• NESCIENCE
  Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.