præ-Socratic
English
Adjective
- Obsolete spelling of pre-Socratic
- 1866 May 13, The Fortnightly, number 25, page 248:
- 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.”
Noun
præ-Socratic (plural præ-Socratics)
- Archaic spelling of pre-Socratic.
- 1931, Man (journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland), volume 31, page 232:
- 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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