a. (UN-1 7.) Also absol.
1757. Lond. Mag., XXVI. April, 175/2. Our first knowledge of it [Nepenthes] was under the not strange tho’ unscientific name of the Wonderful Plant, Planta mirabilis.
[1775. Ash.]
1813. F. S. N. Douglas, Ess. Greeks, ii. 85. The admiration, with which the beautiful Caryatides … inspire the most unscientific.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., vii. 204. This distinction is known to be very unscientific, but it is convenient in operations.
1877. N. & Q., 22 Dec., 498/1. In this matter of Latin pronunciation old fogies like myself are … on the side … of the unscientific.
