ethico-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ethico-, Greek ἠθικο-.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin ethico-, combining form (in e.g. ethicophysicus : see ethico-physical adj. ) of ethicus ethic adj. Compare Byzantine Greek ἠθικο-, combining form of ancient Greek ἠθικός ethic adj. (in e.g. ἠθικοπροσκόπται (plural) stumblers in morals, name given to a heretical sect; rare).Attested from the second half of the 17th cent., earliest in adaptations of Latincompounds. Adaptations of German compounds in ethisch-, as well as new formations within English, are found from the first half of the 19th cent.

As a prefix to an adjective, with the sense ‘ethical and ——’.

ethico-physical adj.

Brit.

/ˌɛθᵻkəʊˈfɪzᵻkl/

U.S.

/ˌɛθəkoʊˈfɪzək(ə)l/

[after post-classical Latin ethicophysicus (1627 or earlier)] both ethical and physical in character; relating to both ethics and the physical world.

ΚΠ

1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance xv. 368 There may be a third kind of impossibility in Spirituall things..which One hath not ineptly called Ethico-physicall, or morally-naturall, partaking of the nature of both the other.

1661 A. Burgess Expository Comment 1st Chap. 2 Cor. xvi. 70 Gods work upon us is Ethico-physical in bringing of us home unto him.

1839 T. De Quincey Milton in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 778/1 For what may properly be called the Ethico-physical Sublime—there is but one great model surviving in the Greek poetry.

1918 W. Archer India & Future iv. 69 The first [sc. transmigration] is not a metaphysical doctrine at all, but an assertion of what may be called ethico-physical fact, which might conceivably be proved by such evidence as would satisfy a court of law.

2004 C. A. J. Littlewood Self-representation & Illusion in Senecan Trag. ii. vi. 59 The landscape functions as an objective ethico-physical context for human action.

ethico-political adj.

Brit.

/ˌɛθᵻkəʊpəˈlɪtᵻkl/

U.S.

/ˌɛθəkoʊpəˈlɪdᵻk(ə)l/

[after post-classical Latin ethicopoliticus (1601 or earlier)] both ethical and political in character; relating to both ethics and politics.

ΚΠ

1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 238 The rest of the Remark is a Digression into an Ethical or Ethico-political explication of the Vision of Ezekiel.

a1687 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) 565 The Bereshith of Moses bears a triple meaning..viz. Ethico-political, Physico-theosophical, and Literal.

1829 Foreign Rev. 3 237 (note) A kind of an ethico-political work, attributed to king Suerrir, of Norway.

1863 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 2 196 The teachings which he has himself transmitted to posterity cannot be included under the term religion in its ordinary acceptation, being little more than an ethico-political code.

1935 G. Clark Great Wall Crumbles iv. 61 The Chow Dynasty..was the dynasty during which Confucius propounded the ethico-political philosophy which expressed the already old essentials of Chinese life.

2000 Canberra (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 5 June a13 Citizenship is seen as an ethico-political practice rather than just a legal or administrative status.

ethico-religious adj.

Brit.

/ˌɛθᵻkəʊrᵻˈlɪdʒəs/

U.S.

/ˌɛθəkoʊrəˈlɪdʒəs/

/ˌɛθəkoʊriˈlɪdʒəs/

[after German ethisch-religiös (1833 in the passage translated in quot. 1835, or earlier)] both ethical and religious in character; relating to both ethics and religion.

ΚΠ

1835 tr. C. O. Müller Diss. Eumenides of Æschylus 236 The political aim of the trilogy..is intimately blended with the ethico-religious [Ger. ethisch-religiösen] idea of the whole.

1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. (1875) 535 The philosophical system of Neo-Platonism was throughout ethical or ethico-religious in spirit.

1920 Psyche & Eros 1 88 They served not only as intellectual symbols, but also to express ethico-religious ideas.

2008 D. Markovits Mod. Legal Ethics iii. viii. 207 (note) The dispute..remained intractably a contest between intransigent ethico-religious outlooks.

ethico-social adj.

Brit.

/ˌɛθᵻkəʊˈsəʊʃl/

U.S.

/ˌɛθəkoʊˈsoʊʃ(ə)l/

[compare German ethisch-sozial (1836 or earlier as ethisch-social)] both ethical and social in character; relating to both ethics and society.

ΚΠ

1847 Christian Examiner & Relig. Misc. Mar. 204 She claimed to be the teacher of some ethico-social lessons.

1905 Spectator Lit. Suppl. 28 Jan. 119/1 Modern ethico-social guides, such as Stevenson, Whitman, and Maeterlinck.

1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 102 The social element in these early forms of ritual..points to a tribal consciousness which has in it at least the beginnings of an ethico-social outlook.

2000 D. Collinson et al. Fifty Eastern Thinkers vi. 321 Confucianism has always had both metaphysical and ethico-social dimensions, owing to its overarching belief that there is a continuation between non-human and human nature.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ethico-
释义	ethico-comb. form Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin ethico-, Greek ἠθικο-. Etymology: < post-classical Latin ethico-, combining form (in e.g. ethicophysicus : see ethico-physical adj. ) of ethicus ethic adj. Compare Byzantine Greek ἠθικο-, combining form of ancient Greek ἠθικός ethic adj. (in e.g. ἠθικοπροσκόπται (plural) stumblers in morals, name given to a heretical sect; rare).Attested from the second half of the 17th cent., earliest in adaptations of Latincompounds. Adaptations of German compounds in ethisch-, as well as new formations within English, are found from the first half of the 19th cent. As a prefix to an adjective, with the sense ‘ethical and ——’. ethico-physical adj. Brit. /ˌɛθᵻkəʊˈfɪzᵻkl/ , U.S. /ˌɛθəkoʊˈfɪzək(ə)l/ [after post-classical Latin ethicophysicus (1627 or earlier)] both ethical and physical in character; relating to both ethics and the physical world. ΚΠ 1654 J. Owen Doctr. Saints Perseverance xv. 368 There may be a third kind of impossibility in Spirituall things..which One hath not ineptly called Ethico-physicall, or morally-naturall, partaking of the nature of both the other. 1661 A. Burgess Expository Comment 1st Chap. 2 Cor. xvi. 70 Gods work upon us is Ethico-physical in bringing of us home unto him. 1839 T. De Quincey Milton in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 778/1 For what may properly be called the Ethico-physical Sublime—there is but one great model surviving in the Greek poetry. 1918 W. Archer India & Future iv. 69 The first [sc. transmigration] is not a metaphysical doctrine at all, but an assertion of what may be called ethico-physical fact, which might conceivably be proved by such evidence as would satisfy a court of law. 2004 C. A. J. Littlewood Self-representation & Illusion in Senecan Trag. ii. vi. 59 The landscape functions as an objective ethico-physical context for human action. ethico-political adj. Brit. /ˌɛθᵻkəʊpəˈlɪtᵻkl/ , U.S. /ˌɛθəkoʊpəˈlɪdᵻk(ə)l/ [after post-classical Latin ethicopoliticus (1601 or earlier)] both ethical and political in character; relating to both ethics and politics. ΚΠ 1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 238 The rest of the Remark is a Digression into an Ethical or Ethico-political explication of the Vision of Ezekiel. a1687 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) 565 The Bereshith of Moses bears a triple meaning..viz. Ethico-political, Physico-theosophical, and Literal. 1829 Foreign Rev. 3 237 (note) A kind of an ethico-political work, attributed to king Suerrir, of Norway. 1863 Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 2 196 The teachings which he has himself transmitted to posterity cannot be included under the term religion in its ordinary acceptation, being little more than an ethico-political code. 1935 G. Clark Great Wall Crumbles iv. 61 The Chow Dynasty..was the dynasty during which Confucius propounded the ethico-political philosophy which expressed the already old essentials of Chinese life. 2000 Canberra (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 5 June a13 Citizenship is seen as an ethico-political practice rather than just a legal or administrative status. ethico-religious adj. Brit. /ˌɛθᵻkəʊrᵻˈlɪdʒəs/ , U.S. /ˌɛθəkoʊrəˈlɪdʒəs/ , /ˌɛθəkoʊriˈlɪdʒəs/ [after German ethisch-religiös (1833 in the passage translated in quot. 1835, or earlier)] both ethical and religious in character; relating to both ethics and religion. ΚΠ 1835 tr. C. O. Müller Diss. Eumenides of Æschylus 236 The political aim of the trilogy..is intimately blended with the ethico-religious [Ger. ethisch-religiösen] idea of the whole. 1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. (1875) 535 The philosophical system of Neo-Platonism was throughout ethical or ethico-religious in spirit. 1920 Psyche & Eros 1 88 They served not only as intellectual symbols, but also to express ethico-religious ideas. 2008 D. Markovits Mod. Legal Ethics iii. viii. 207 (note) The dispute..remained intractably a contest between intransigent ethico-religious outlooks. ethico-social adj. Brit. /ˌɛθᵻkəʊˈsəʊʃl/ , U.S. /ˌɛθəkoʊˈsoʊʃ(ə)l/ [compare German ethisch-sozial (1836 or earlier as ethisch-social)] both ethical and social in character; relating to both ethics and society. ΚΠ 1847 Christian Examiner & Relig. Misc. Mar. 204 She claimed to be the teacher of some ethico-social lessons. 1905 Spectator Lit. Suppl. 28 Jan. 119/1 Modern ethico-social guides, such as Stevenson, Whitman, and Maeterlinck. 1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 102 The social element in these early forms of ritual..points to a tribal consciousness which has in it at least the beginnings of an ethico-social outlook. 2000 D. Collinson et al. Fifty Eastern Thinkers vi. 321 Confucianism has always had both metaphysical and ethico-social dimensions, owing to its overarching belief that there is a continuation between non-human and human nature. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1654
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