theoric

1. (obsolete) Theory, as opposed to practice.Examples: "So that the art and practic part of life Must be the mistress to this theoric"; "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."; "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?"obsolete