præ-Socratic

English

Adjective

præ-Socratic (not comparable)

1. 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)

1. 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 […]

Anagrams

• paracortices, partocracies