Definition of "pre-darwinian" []

• Preceding the time of Charles Darwin: noting, specifically, the doctrines or opinions of biologists at an earlier date than that of the publication of Darwin's “Origin of Species.”

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The whole research into pre-darwinian, pre-freudian literature and cultural production in general suggests to me that people and not least bourgeois women were rattling the cage quite a lot though rather invisible to the public eye in more or less private circles."