prescientifically

English

Etymology

From prescientific +‎ -ally.

Adverb

prescientifically (not comparable)

1. Prior to established science.
   • 2008 October 22, R. W. Fischer, “Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:

     The majority of what we prescientifically called ‘water’ has more than one microstructural feature that we could have concluded distinguishes the true from the spurious samples believed to be water.

Anagrams

• interspecifically