combining form of CHEMIC a. used in compound adjs. in sense ‘chemically,’ ‘relating to chemistry in connection with …’; as in chemico-agricultural, -electric, -medical, -nutritive, physical, -physiological, -vital, and the like.
1881. in Nature, XXIII. 456. *Chemico-agricultural subjects.
1805. W. Saunders, Min. Waters, Introd. 18. The *chemico-medical publications of Shaw, Hoffman, and Lucas.
1880. Bastian, Brain, 5. Internal *chemico-nutritive changes.
1856. F. E. Paget, Owlet of Owlst., 126. The *chemico-philosophico-politico-economico-botanical discussions of this happy family.
1847–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 329/2. These mutual actions between the nutritious juices and atmospheric air are purely *chemico-physical.
1855. J. F. Johnston, Chem. Com. Life, I. 345. *Chemico-physiological points in connection with this subject.
1856. R. Vaughan, Mystics, II. VIII. vii. 80. His arbitrary *chemico-theological terminology.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), II. 302. Those *chemicovital actions which end in the production of vegetable secretions.
