1854 T. De Quincey Let. Oct. in ‘H. A. Page’ (1877) II. xviii. 84 It is not only a prehistoric, but a premythical,..even a prefabulous and a pretraditional thesis.
1999 18 191 The ‘new forms of assessment,’ which look to be pretraditional, are entirely local and based on the expert if not demonstrably reliable judgments of local teachers.