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EMPIRICALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does empirically mean?
• EMPIRICALLY (adverb)
The adverb EMPIRICALLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: EMPIRICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an empirical manner
Synonyms:
by trial and error; empirically; through empirical observation
Context example:
this can be empirically tested
Antonym:
theoretically (in a theoretical manner)
Pertainym:
empirical (derived from experiment and observation rather than theory)
Context examples
However, the source of this ivory has never been empirically established.
(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)
The little bird, the little fish, the little animal learn not by principle, but empirically; and when he learn to do, then there is to him the ground to start from to do more.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
There is this peculiarity in criminals. It is so constant, in all countries and at all times, that even police, who know not much from philosophy, come to know it empirically, that it is. That is to be empiric.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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