The Clue
Empiricist John and others (6 letter answer)
The Answer
LOCKES
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Notes
The answer LOCKES is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
LOCKE as a noun:
1. (Locke, John Locke) = English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
LOCK as a verb:
1. fasten with a lock; "lock the bike to the fence"
2. (engage, mesh, lock, operate) = keep engaged; "engaged the gears"
3. become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise"
4. (lock, interlock, interlace) = hold in a locking position; "He locked his hands around her neck"
5. (interlock, lock) = become engaged or intermeshed with one another; "They were locked in embrace"
6. hold fast (in a certain state); "He was locked in a laughing fit"
7. (lock in, lock away, lock, put away, shut up, shut away, lock up) = place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape; "The parents locked her daughter up for the weekend"; "She locked her jewels in the safe"
8. pass by means through a lock in a waterway
9. build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels