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
To do this is the chief purpose of the primitive, prescientific science of the Old Testament Scriptures.
From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl
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