præ-Socratic

A form of pre-Socratic — Existing in Ancient Greece before the flourishing of the philosopher Socrates (circa 469–399 BCE).

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Meanings

adjectivepræ-Socratic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of pre-Socratic.

    Sir Alexander then illustrates these periods by showing that in præ-Socratic Greece ethical ideas had no distinctness, but were confused with physical or even mathematical notions, as Pythagoras “ made virtue a number, and justice a cube.”

    1866 May 13, The Fortnightly, number 25, page 248
nounpræ-Socratic (plural præ-Socratics)

plural præ-Socratics

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of pre-Socratic.

    I should have preferred to see him do for Polynesia what, for instance, Diels did for the præ-Socratics […]

    1931, Man (journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), volume 31, page 232
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