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prescientific

adj

Etymology

From pre- + scientific.

Definitions

  1. Before the development of modern science.

    • It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.

  2. Exhibiting or relating to prescience

    Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prescientific. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at prescientific. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at prescientific

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA