repr. Gr. ἠθικο-, combining form of ἠθικός: see ETHIC. Occurring in a few compound adjs.; as Ethico-physical, -political, -religious, partaking of the nature of or pertaining jointly to ethics, and physics, politics or religion.
1667. H. More, Div. Dial. (1713), 565. The Bereshith of Moses bears a triple meaning … viz. Ethico-political, Physico-theosophical, and Literal.
1847. De Quincey, Milton, Wks. (1863), VI. 318. For what may properly be called the Ethico-physical Sublime there is but one great model surviving in the Greek poetry.
1868. Bain, Mental & Mor. Sci., Ethics (1875), 535. The philosophical system of Neo-Platonism was throughout ethical or ethico-religious in spirit.
