combining form of Gr. ἐκκλησιαστικός, as in ecclesiastico-conservative a., advocating a conservative policy in church affairs; ecclesiastico-military a., combining an ecclesiastical with a military organization.
1685. H. More, Paralip. Prophet., 269. Hieratico-Political or Ecclesiastico-Secular Sovereignties.
1753. Bp. Warburton, Lett. late Prelate (1809). To consider it in … an ecclesiastico-political light.
1817. Bentham, Church-of-Englandism, 308. Ecclesiastico-statistical information.
1845. Sarah Austin, trans. Ranke’s Hist. Ref., I. 23. The German empire … extended the ecclesiastico-military State of which the Church was an integral part.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., xxiv. (1857), 536. The ecclesiastico-Conservative journal … patronized … by the Scottish Church.
