1818 Bentham Ch. Eng. 109Ministers of the Established Church are, according to the system of poetico-architectural divinity, ‘the pillars of divine truth’.
1827 Carlyle Misc. , Goethe (1869) 183Götz became the parent of an innumerable progeny of poetico-antiquarian performances.
1837 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. XXVII. 50Much genuine philosophy, disguised though it often be in a poetico-metaphysical vesture of a most questionable kind.
1878 Grosart in H. More's PoemsMem. Introd. 31/1The peculiarity of More is in that poetico-philosophic mist, which..hangs in light and beautiful festoons over his thoughts.
1930 Blunden Leigh Hunt viii. 99It almost became fashionable..but..by no means challenged the poetico-commercial achievements of Rogers. [ sc. Rimini]
ORIGIN: from Latin poeticus poetic : see -o- .