empiric

The count considered Lincoln an “honest man of nature, perhaps an empiric, doctoring with innocent juices from herbs.”

Clemens never had any quarrel with the theory of Christian Science or mental healing, or with any of the empiric practices.

The theorist disdains experience—the empiric rejects principle.

The great intellectual forces of the nineteenth century allied themselves to two movements, the transcendental and the empiric.

The surplus labour of the latter is an empiric fact, demonstrable by experience, which needs no deductive proof.

To them both the physician and empiric owe part of their success.