analytico-combining form of Gr. ἀναλυτικό-ς analytic, prefixed to an adj. to denote a. ‘pertaining to analytical{ddd}’ as analytico-chemical; b. ‘analytical and {ddd}’, as analytico-synthetic.1920T. P. Nunn Education xiii. 173 Thus the function of the nervous system is never purely integrative nor purely analytic, but always analytico-synthetic.1938R. W. Lawson tr.Hevesy & Paneth's Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) xxiii. 230 This analytico-chemical difference.1961T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 81/2 Attempts have been made..to build up classification schemes inductively from certain fundamental concepts which may be combined in various ways to form a synthesized concept for a whole book. Then groups of books in these analytico-synthetic schemes may be arranged into classes.