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 - EXPERIMENTALLY
By experiment; by experience or trial. J. S. Mill. - EXPERIENCER
1. One who experiences. 2. An experimenter. Sir. K. Gigby. - 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.