2. Adverb. Regarding prehistory. ¹
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Definition of Prehistorically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prehistorically
Literary usage of Prehistorically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1907)
"The three persons of the plural had only one form, which, prehistorically, had
been that of the third person; and, in the past tense, the first and third ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"V, VI); Hutton, 'Boccaccio' (1909). great cats widely distributed over Africa
and Asia, and prehistorically prevalent in southern LEOPARD, or PANTHER, ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"At any rate, prehistorically, the two types seem to have co-existed and to have
frequently fused. At the present day the black Negro typo seems to be ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society by Historical Society of Great Britain (1877)
"These two distinctly represent prehistorically male and female, and being described
in Hebrew as the hand and the hollow or palm of the hand, ..."
5. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"... portraits of Justinian and of his empress Theodora in the choir of the octagonal
church of San Vitale at Ravenna look almost prehistorically primitive. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society by American Philosophical Society (1771)
"One new site, San José, was untouched by any of the active local collecting being
done; it was very intensively occupied prehistorically. ..."
7. The Traditions of European Literature: From Homer to Dante by Barrett Wendell (1920)
"... portraits of Justinian and of his empress Theodora in the choir of the octagonal
church of San Vitale at Ravenna look almost prehistorically primitive. ..."
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