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prescientific

British  
/ ˌpriːsaɪənˈtɪfɪk /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the period before the development of modern science and its methods

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Our faith is founded on the old prescientific conception of a universe in which good and evil are struggling with each other, with a Supreme Being aiding and abetting the good.

From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs

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