Empiric
51Empirical — Based on experience and observation, rather than systematic logic. Experienced physicians often use empirical reasoning to make diagnoses, based on having seen many cases over the years. Less experienced physicians are more likely to use… …
52risk — The probability that an event will occur. attributable r. the rate of a disease or other outcome in exposed individuals that can be attributed to the exposure. competing r. an event that removes a subject from being at r. for an outcome under… …
53Divinization (Christian) — In Christian theology, divinization, deification, making divine or theosis is the transforming effect of divine grace.[1] This concept of salvation is historical and fundamental for Christian understanding that is prominent in the Eastern… …
54GENETHLIACI — dicti sunt qui ex natali constellatione omnia captabant. A. Gell. l. 14. c. 1. Augustino Planetarii, Confess. l. 4. Isid. Mathematici, Orig. l. 8. c. 9. Pers. Horoscopi, Sat. 6. v. 18. Ipsi sese Schaldaeos appellabant, de qua voce Cic. de Divin.… …
55peril — [13] Etymologically, peril means a ‘trying out of something’, an ‘experiment’. The word comes via Old French peril from Latin perīculum ‘experiment, danger’, a noun formed from the base *per ‘attempt’ (which also lies behind English empiric,… …
56empirical — 1560s, from EMPIRIC (Cf. empiric) + AL (Cf. al) (1) …
57empiricism — 1650s, in the medical sense, from EMPIRIC (Cf. empiric) + ISM (Cf. ism). General sense is from 1796 …
58empiricist — c.1700, from EMPIRIC (Cf. empiric) + IST (Cf. ist) …
59peril — [13] Etymologically, peril means a ‘trying out of something’, an ‘experiment’. The word comes via Old French peril from Latin perīculum ‘experiment, danger’, a noun formed from the base *per ‘attempt’ (which also lies behind English empiric,… …
60empiricism — noun 1. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑empiricist philosophy, ↑sensationalism • Derivationally related forms: ↑empiricist • Topics: ↑ …
