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scientifico-

scientifico- prefix: science; scientific.

Prefix

scientifico-

  1. science; scientific
    • 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
    • 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

Origin of scientifico-

From scientific + -o-.

Questions about scientifico-

What does scientifico- mean?
Scientifico- means science; scientific.
What part of speech is scientifico-?
Scientifico- is a prefix.

Words near scientifico- in the dictionary

  1. scientificized
  2. scientificizes
  3. scientificizing
  4. scientifick
  5. scientificness
  6. scientifico-
  7. scientifico-historical
  8. scientifico-philosophical
  9. scientifico-religious
  10. scientificomic
  11. scientificomics

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