1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 258/2These are of a magico-erotic nature, and, like similar rites among savages, are founded on the belief that the ghost can cause fruitfulness, or perhaps may incarnate himself in the barren woman who performs the rite.
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Nov. 1004/3As against the ‘magico-oriental’ view of the image maintained by the Iconoclast stands the Platonism of the image-worshipper.
1941 Jrnl. R.Anthrop. Inst. LXXI. 85/2Numerous acts and ceremonies..which the European..would place under the category of magico-profane, magico-religious or superstition.
1908 Man VIII. 46 The magico-religious ideas and practices of savage and proto-historic man.
1922 Nature 29 Apr. 540/2 The complex and inexorable system of magico-religious gennas.
1967 C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 17Anglo-Saxon magico-religious arts.
ORIGIN: from magical adjective : see -o- .
magico-
Prefix
- Forming compound adjectives having the sense of ‘magic’, ‘magical’. 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.2.4:
- panaceas, martial amulets, unguentum armarium, balsams, strange extracts, elixirs, and such-like magico-magnetical cures.
Etymology
Combining form of Latin magicus (“magic”).