combining form of Gr. σωματικός SOMATIC a., in somatico-hedonistics (see quot.).
1816. Bentham, Chrestomathia, Wks. 1843, VIII. 90. Under the name of Somatico-Hedonistics might be collected and comprehended those branches of art and science which, as above, have for their objects those modifications of pleasure, which have the body for their seat.
