empyrical
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek [Term?] (“in fire”). See empyreal.
Adjective
empyrical (not comparable)
- Containing the combustible principle of coal.
- 1796, Richard Kirwan, The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils
- , if it be rich , they will not extend above five or six inches ; but of these and some other empyrical marks , I shall say no more , as they do not tell us the defects of the soils
- 1796, Richard Kirwan, The Manures Most Advantageously Applicable to the Various Sorts of Soils
References
empyrical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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