What's the difference between empire and impire?

Empire


Definition:

  • (n.) Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion.
  • (n.) The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire.
  • (n.) Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The issue of the Schizophrenia Bulletin is devoted to articles representing this full range of conceptual and empirical work on first-episode psychosis.
  • (2) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (3) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
  • (4) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
  • (5) Comparisons between predicted and observed results of studies using different coalition paradigms show considerable empirical support for the model.
  • (6) Though the concept of phase, known also as focus, is a very helpful notion, its empirical foundation is yet very weak.
  • (7) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (8) The current work utilizes an empirical relationship between HbO2 saturation measurements and reflected light oximetry, which is consistent with the two-flux theory of Kubelka and Munk (Z.
  • (9) Energy conformational calculations on these compounds were also carried out using the empirical energy program called MOLMEC, in order to better understand how the 4-R substituents modulate receptor binding affinities and efficacies.
  • (10) The resultant scales were administered to a small sample for preliminary empirical testing.
  • (11) We conclude that the concept of the limbic system cannot be accepted on empirical grounds.
  • (12) Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process.
  • (13) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
  • (14) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (15) The similarities in methods of intervention found in the work of investigators of very different theoretical persuasion raise the possibility that most treatment methods owe more to empirical clinical experience than to their presumed derivation from a theoretical model.
  • (16) This study is directed toward the empirical elaboration of four of these issues as they relate to adjustment in the community.
  • (17) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
  • (18) In addition to a detailed description of the method, examples for its applications are given, including concomitant investigations of the same cells by empirical staining, immunostaining, and fluorescence histochemistry of biogenic monoamines; colocalization of multiple peptides to the same cells and corresponding specificity controls; three-dimensional reconstructions based upon immunostained serial semithin sections; quantitative (computer-assisted) determinations of immunoreactivities.
  • (19) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
  • (20) Comparison with other pinch strength studies established that although force magnitudes may be strongly influenced by specific experimental conditions, empirical relationships among different pinch forces are fairly stable and predictable.

Impire


Definition:

  • (n.) See Umpire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The impiric use of postoperative human chorionic gonadotropin therapy in the latter group of patients improves results significantly (56 per cent improved, 44 per cent pregnant).
  • (2) Examples from impirical evaluation studies are presented to illustrate one practical application of these steps.
  • (3) Previously, the signs of colic had subsided in response to impiric treatment, but recent episodes of colic did not.
  • (4) In the absence of any specific controlled studies its treatment remains impirical and is similar to that given for diffuse or idiopathic interstitial fibrosis.
  • (5) A zonal rotor technique for the preparation of synaptosomes in bulk from bovine brain frontal cortex based on an impirical transformation of a small-volume discontinuous sucrose density gradient arrangement is presented in detail.
  • (6) These results suggest that hypoxic-hypercapnic interaction on ventilation and load compensation reflex to inspiratory resistive loading are impired in the elderly subjects and that these are not associated with bluntness of respiratory sensation.

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