[f. as prec. + -IST.] a. An upholder of philosophical empiricism. b. One who follows empirical methods.
1857. T. E. Webb, Intellectualism Locke, i. 17. Kant … regarded Aristotle as the head of the Empiricists.
1875. N. Amer. Rev., CXX. 469. Berkeley, as a consistent empiricist, saw that Sensation shuts itself up within its own home, and does not include its object.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 5. Medical men have been designated as Empiricists and Rationalists in matters of pathology.
