3 Enlightenment, science and empiricism. The Enlightenment's dedication to reason and knowledge did not come out of the blue. After all, scholars had for centuries been adding to humanity's stock of knowledge. The new emphasis, however, was on empirical knowledge: that is, knowledge or opinion grounded in experience.
Definition of immiseration. : the act of making miserable; especially : impoverishment the immiseration of the working class â C. R. Morris.
objective. 1. perceptible by the external senses. 2. the lens or system of lenses of a microscope nearest the object that is being examined. immersion objective. one designed to have its tip and the coverglass over the specimen connected by a liquid instead of air.