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pneumato-|pnjuːmətəʊ, njuː-|
before a vowel pneumat-, a. Gr. πνευµατο-, combining form of πνεῦµα air, breath, spirit: see pneuma. Used, with various senses, chiefly in scientific and other technical words; for the more important of these, see their alphabetical places. (Also contracted to pneumo-: see pneumo-, and cf. hæmo-, etc.)
† ˌpneumato-ˈchemical a., pertaining to ‘pneumatic chemistry’, or the chemistry of gases; pneumato-chemical trough = pneumatic trough (see pneumatic a. 2). ˌpneumatoˈmorphic |-ˈmɔːfɪk| a. nonce-wd. [after anthropomorphic] (see quot.). pneumatophany |-ˈɒfənɪ| nonce-wd. [after Christophany, theophany], an appearance or manifestation of the Holy Spirit. ˌpneumatophiˈlosophy, the philosophy of spirit or spiritual existence. pneumatophobia |-ˈfəʊbɪə| nonce-wd. [-phobia], dread or abhorrence of the spiritual. pneumatophony |-ˈɒfənɪ| [Gr. ϕωνή voice], ‘spirit-speech’, i.e. the supposed utterance of articulate sounds by disembodied spirits; hence ˌpneumatoˈphonic |-ˈfɒnɪk| a. † ˌpneumatoˈpyrist [Gr. πῦρ fire] (see quot.). ˌpneumatotheraˈpeutics, -ˈtherapy [see therapeutic], treatment of diseases, esp. of the lungs, by inhalation of compressed or rarified air (Syd. Soc. Lex.). ˌpneumatoˈthorax Path. = pneumothorax.
1800Henry Epit. Chem. (1808) 56 The *pneumato-chemical trough, or pneumatic cistern. 1822J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 12 An improved pneumato-chemical apparatus.
1886Kernel & Husk 62 Metaphors..which would subtilize Him down to a thought, or a mind, or a spirit, may be called phronesimorphic, noumorphic, *pneumatomorphic.
1892Briggs Bible Church & Reason 163 The Theophany, the Christophany, and the *Pneumatophany are the sources of the miracles of the Bible.
1847Tulk tr. Oken's Physio-philosophy 2 Physio- and *Pneumato-philosophy range, therefore, parallel to each other. Physio-philosophy, however, holds the first rank, Pneumato-philosophy the second; the former therefore, is the ground and foundation of the latter, for nature is antecedent to the human spirit.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. Misc. ii. ii. 64 All Atheists (says he) are possess'd with a certain kind of Madness, that may be call'd *Pneumatophobia, that makes them have an irrational but desperate Abhorrence from Spirits or Incorporeal Substances.
1687H. More Answ. Psychop. (1689) 107 The Psychopyrists (for so rather I call them, than *Pneumatopyrists);..philosophers that make the essence or substance of all created spirits to be Fire.
1825Good's Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 436 The pneumo-thorax of Itard and Laennec, or the *pneumato-thorax, as it is more correctly called, of Dr. John Davy. |