Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to combustion or combustibility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing the combustible principle of coal.
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- adjective Containing the
combustible principle ofcoal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the case of tea-leaves, where the symbols are not mere 'conventional signs' or numbers but actual figures like the pictures seen in the fire or those envisaged in dreams, there is no doubt that the signification of most of them is the result of empyrical experience.
Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer
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In the meantime those who were dealing with the empyrical or experimental side of these problems were seeking for the causes of and the rules for variation.
Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price
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The monody and empyrical tonality of the ancients gave place to polyphony and harmonized melodies resting upon the relations of tones in key.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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METALLIC PRACTICE with the most paltry of empyrical projects, are but too thinly veiled to escape detection. "
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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METALLIC PRACTICE with the most paltry of empyrical projects, are but too thinly veiled to escape detection. "
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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