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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Theoretics

· The·o·ret·ics · IPA
01 n. The speculative part of a science; speculation.
  1. 1.
    The speculative part of a science; speculation.
    “At the very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics.” — H. B. Wilson.