prescientific
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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But Kandel’s Freudian affinity was formed in his prescientific Viennese youth, and his brilliant work on the molecular basis of memory owed nothing to psychoanalysis.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019
It is an interesting historical system, left over from prescientific days and best remembered for the impetus it gave people to learn the cycles and patterns of the sky.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
In recent years, however, some of our great temples of healing have begun to dabble in the unscientific and the prescientific.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2014
His is a prescientific world, inclined to classify hallucinations as visions.
From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2012
They were supplied by the universal early conditions of the prescientific human intellect; Thus the stuff of marchen is everywhere the same.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
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