empīrĭce, ēs (-ca, ae, Marc. de Med. 6), f., = ἐμπειρική,
I empiricism in medicine, i. e. a system founded wholly on practice , Plin. 29, 1, 4, § 5.
II —Hence, empīrĭcus , i, m., an empiric , a physician whose knowledge of medicine is derived from experience only , Cic. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 39, 122 (in Cels. praef. and 5 init. , written as Greek); their writings were called empīrĭca , ōrum, n., Plin. 20, 12, 48, § 120.