Prescientific

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Before the development of modern science. not-comparable

    "It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer."

  2. 2
    Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient. not-comparable, rare

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"It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer."

Etymology

From pre- + scientific.

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