Metempirical

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Metempiric \Met`em*pir"ic\, Metempirical \Met`em*pir"ic*al\, a.
     [Pref. met- + empiric, -ical.] (Metaph.)
     Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the
     province of metempirics.
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           If then the empirical designates the province we
           include within the range of science, the province we
           exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. --G. H.
                                                    Lewes.
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