Adjective
prescientific (not comparable)
Prior to the development of modern science.
prescientific (not comparable)
(rare) Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.
It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period. Michael Crichton
Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently. Lucio Russo
I claim no therapy to assist the transformation of a proto-science to a science, nor do I suppose anything of this sort is to be had". citation The term prescientific means at root "relating to an era before science existed". Source: Internet
" Traditional medicine " and " folk medicine " refer to prescientific practices of a culture, not to what is traditionally practiced in cultures where medical science dominates. Source: Internet
" Eastern medicine " typically refers to prescientific traditional medicines of Asia. Source: Internet
For example, traditional medicine existed for thousands of years before medical science did, and thus many aspects of it can be described as prescientific. Source: Internet