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paleotechnic en · ADJ

Etymology

From paleo- + technic.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to a period where industry is predominantly based on the use of hand tools, craft industries, and the use of coal and iron
   • paleotechnic capitalism
   • paleotechnic era
   • The Neotechnic phase, though itself as yet far from completely replacing the paleotechnic order which is still quantitatively predominant in most of our cities, begins itself to show signs of a higher stage of progress, as in the co-ordination of the many industries required for the building of a ship, or in the yet more recent developments which begin to renew for us the conception of the worthy construction of a city. 1893, Patrick Geddes, Civics:
   • The oldest art-traces of the palæotechnic men of central France not only surpass those of many savage races, but they indicate an intellectual aptitude in no degree inferior to the average Frenchman of the nineteenth century. 1876, Daniel Wilson, Prehistoric Man:
   • paleotechnic sound poetry

Translations (1)

ga pailéiteicniúil (relating to ancient art)