religio-
mod. combining form of religion or religious, as in religio-educational, religio-ethnic, religio-historical, religio-magical, religio-military, religio-musical, religio-mystical, religio-philosophic, religio-philosophical, religio-political, religio-psychiatric (also religio-psychiatry), religio-scientific, religio-sexual, etc.
| 1966 J. E. Hofman in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 626 Our hypothesis that whenever *religio-ethnic concentrations and certain other factors coincide, a situation is created which enhances the ideological climate suitable to retentiveness of the ethnic mother tongue. |
| 1953 W. R. Trask tr. Auerbach's Mimesis i. 17 The reader is at every moment aware of the universal *religio-historical perspective which gives the individual stories their general meaning and purpose. |
| 1896 W. St. C. Boscawen Bible & Monum. 171 One of the litanies of the *religio-magical creed. |
| 1894 H. Speight Nidderdale 169 There were two orders of the *religio-military brotherhood. |
| 1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene iii. 45 ‘Shouting’ sects..have made the most powerful single *religio-musical contribution to jazz. |
| 1976 Listener 22 July 92/2 George Sand..turned *religio-mystical..with a spate of earnest, spiritual books. |
| 1926 Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 393/1 We must take account of *religio-philosophic speculations. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 408/2 The world-wide religio-philosophical movement known as Theosophy. |
| 1928 Weekly Dispatch 3 June 10/5 One of the most remarkable contributions to the *religio-political discussion on record. 1979 M. A. Screech Rabelais vi. 215 The direct religio-political propaganda. |
| 1964 S. Z. Klausner Psychiatry & Relig. i. 1 (heading) *Religio-psychiatry: a social institution. |
| Ibid., The *religio-psychiatric movement is born through several thousand similar encounters. 1968 Internat. Encycl. Soc. Sci. XII. 632/2 Religio-psychiatry is a twentieth-century movement whose participants are concerned with the relation between religious and scientific approaches to mental, emotional, or spiritual healing. |
| 1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist iv. 49 The Poles snarled back a stream of commingled *religio-sexual obscenity, to show how dirty they could talk if they pleased. |