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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prehistoric \Pre`his*tor"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins;
as the prehistoric ages; prehistoric man.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
prehistoric
adj 1: belonging to or existing in times before recorded history;
"prehistoric settlements"; "prehistoric peoples" [syn:
{prehistorical}]
2: of or relating to times before written history; "prehistoric
archeology"
3: (informal) "my mother has these prehistoric ideas about
proper clothes"
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PREHISTORIC, adj Belonging to an early period and a museum.
Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.
He lived in a period prehistoric,
When all was absurd and phantasmagoric.
Born later when Clio, celestial recorded,
Set down great events in succession and order
He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous
In anything here but the lies that she threw at us
Orpheus Bowen
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