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prescientific, a.|priːsaɪənˈtɪfɪk|
[In 1, irreg. f. prescience after scientific; in 2, f. pre- B. 1 + scientific (prob. after prehistoric).]
I.
†1. Of or belonging to prescience; conditional prescientific, making (the divine) prescience conditional. Obs. rare.
1836G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Election ii. iii. 265 Ireneus..has also been claimed as an advocate of the same Conditional Prescientific System: but, in truth,..he really maintained a directly opposite Scheme of causation. Ibid. 267 Ireneus never maintains the Conditional Prescientific Scheme.
II.
2. Of or pertaining to times prior to the rise of modern science, or to the application of the scientific method.
1858G. Duff Sp. at Elgin 11 Aug., Belonging as he [Lord Palmerston] does to the premoral, as Lord Derby says he does to the prescientific, school. 1868–70Mill Ess. Relig. (1874) 241 In prescientific times men always supposed that any unusual faculties which came to them they knew not how, were an inspiration from God. 1879Times 5 June 9 Their expeditions should not be regarded as either unscientific or prescientific. |
