empiric

adj : (archaic) relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment"

empire

Any of a family of military simulations derived from a

game written by Peter Langston many years ago. Five or six

multi-player variants of varying degrees of sophistication

exist, and one single-player version implemented for both

{Unix} and {VMS}; the latter is even available as {MS-DOS}

{freeware}. All are notoriously addictive.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-08-06)