Definition of prescientific
: of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a period before the rise of modern science or a state prior to the application of the scientific method
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In a prescientific world, the sun’s unexpected diminishment and even disappearance must have been utterly terrifying.
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First Known Use of prescientific
1854
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