pneumato-
(pnjuːmətəʊ, njuː-)
before a vowel pneumat-, a. Gr. πνευµατο-, combining form of πνεῦµα air, breath, spirit: see pneuma. Used, with various senses, chiefly in scientific and other technical words; for the more important of these, see their alphabetical places. (Also contracted to pneumo-: see pneumo-, and cf. hæmo-, etc.)
† ˌpneumato-ˈchemical a., pertaining to ‘pneumatic chemistry’, or the chemistry of gases; pneumato-chemical trough = pneumatic trough (see pneumatic a. 2). ˌpneumatoˈmorphic (-ˈmɔːfɪk) a. nonce-wd. [after anthropomorphic] (see quot.). pneumatophany (-ˈɒfənɪ) nonce-wd. [after Christophany, theophany], an appearance or manifestation of the Holy Spirit. ˌpneumatophiˈlosophy, the philosophy of spirit or spiritual existence. pneumatophobia (-ˈfəʊbɪə) nonce-wd. [-phobia], dread or abhorrence of the spiritual. pneumatophony (-ˈɒfənɪ) [Gr. ϕωνή voice], ‘spirit-speech’, i.e. the supposed utterance of articulate sounds by disembodied spirits; hence ˌpneumatoˈphonic (-ˈfɒnɪk) a. † ˌpneumatoˈpyrist [Gr. πῦρ fire] (see quot.). ˌpneumatotheraˈpeutics, -ˈtherapy [see therapeutic], treatment of diseases, esp. of the lungs, by inhalation of compressed or rarified air (Syd. Soc. Lex.). ˌpneumatoˈthorax Path. = pneumothorax.
| 1800 Henry Epit. Chem. (1808) 56 The *pneumato-chemical trough, or pneumatic cistern. 1822 J. Imison Sc. & Art II. 12 An improved pneumato-chemical apparatus. |
| 1886 Kernel & Husk 62 Metaphors..which would subtilize Him down to a thought, or a mind, or a spirit, may be called phronesimorphic, noumorphic, *pneumatomorphic. |
| 1892 Briggs Bible Church & Reason 163 The Theophany, the Christophany, and the *Pneumatophany are the sources of the miracles of the Bible. |
| 1847 Tulk tr. Oken's Physio-philosophy 2 Physio- and *Pneumato-philosophy range, therefore, parallel to each other. Physio-philosophy, however, holds the first rank, Pneumato-philosophy the second; the former therefore, is the ground and foundation of the latter, for nature is antecedent to the human spirit. |
| 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) III. Misc. ii. ii. 64 All Atheists (says he) are possess'd with a certain kind of Madness, that may be call'd *Pneumatophobia, that makes them have an irrational but desperate Abhorrence from Spirits or Incorporeal Substances. |
| 1687 H. More Answ. Psychop. (1689) 107 The Psychopyrists (for so rather I call them, than *Pneumatopyrists);..philosophers that make the essence or substance of all created spirits to be Fire. |
| 1825 Good's Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 436 The pneumo-thorax of Itard and Laennec, or the *pneumato-thorax, as it is more correctly called, of Dr. John Davy. |