I. |prē+ adjective
Usage: sometimes capitalized P & usually capitalized S
Etymology: pre- + socratic
: of or relating to Greek philosophy or philosophers before Socrates ; especially : of or relating to the members or the ideas of the Ionian, Pythagorean, and Eleatic schools, the school of the atomists, and sometimes the Sophists
pre-Socratic thought
II. noun
( -s )
Usage: sometimes capitalized P & usually capitalized S
: a pre-Socratic philosopher
a fundamental doctrine on which the pre-Socratics had been agreed — Friedrich Solmsen