scientifico-

prefix

science; scientific

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Meanings

prefix
  1. science; scientific

    If he has a dogma, i.e. a scientifico-philosophical theory, then he is not any sort of Skeptic, not even an urbane Skeptic.

    2015, Tad Brennan, Ethics and Epistemology in Sextus Empiricus
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    A genealogy of the present scientifico-legal complex from which the power to punish derives its bases, justifications and rules, from which it extends its effects and by which it masks its exorbitant singularity.

    1979, Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan, Discipline and Punish, page 23

Origin

From scientific + -o-.

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APA

scientifico-. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scientifico-

MLA

“scientifico-.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scientifico-. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scientifico-,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scientifico-.

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