English

Noun

theoric ‎(plural theorics)

1. (obsolete) Theory, as opposed to practice. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.27:

     We travel into Italie to learne the art of fencing, and practise it at the cost of our lives, before we know it; it were requisite, according to the order of true discipline, we should preferre the theorike before the practike.

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:

     Jucundus […] confesseth of himself, that he was mightily delighted with these husbandry studies, and took extraordinary pleasure in them: if the theoric or speculation can so much affect, what shall the place and exercise, the practic part, do?

Adjective

theoric ‎(comparative more theoric, superlative most theoric)

1. (obsolete) Relating to, or skilled in, theory.
   • Massinger

     A man but young, / Yet old in judgment, theoric and practic / In all humanity.

2. Relating to the Ancient Greek Theorica.