1757 Warburton in W. & Hurd Lett. (1809) 229Pray ask our friend..whether my metaphysico-ethical philosophy be right.
1848 D. G. Rossetti Let. 20 Aug. (1965) I. 40Hunt's stanzas..partook of the metaphysico-mysterioso-obscure.
1850 H. L. Mansel Lett. ,Lect. &Rev. (1873) 12Another metaphysico-grammatical theory.
1904 Q. Rev. July 266The absence of the metaphysico-religious element in his constitution.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 961‘Responsibility’ was not a medical conception: it was a metaphysico-legal conception.
1905 Spectator Suppl. 28 Jan. 119/1One of those extremely clever and almost painfully ‘up-to-date’ metaphysico-theological books which America produces in such abundance.
1930 D. B. Wyndham Lewis Stuffed Owl p. xx,Verse which..crystallises the metaphysico-theologo-cosmologo-nigology to which the best modern thought..inclines.
1936 L. S. Stebbing in Day Lewis & Stebbing Imagination & Thinking 15The truth of this statement is logically independent of any metaphysico-psychologist's -ism.
1955 H. B. Acton Illusion of Epoch 3The criticisms that apply no more to it than they do to other metaphysico-ethical systems.
ORIGIN: from metaphysic adjective & noun 2 , metaphysic(al adjective + -o- .