zoophysicalhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoophysical_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoophysical, adj.
Revised 2017

zoophysicaladjective

  1. 1820–
    † a. Of or relating to a life force or vital force; of or relating to animal magnetism (obsolete); b. of or relating to zoophysics (now rare).
    1. 1820
      It [sc. Christian faith] is the Physics of the Moral Being no less than it is the Morale of the zoo-physical.
      S. T. Coleridge, Marginalia (2000) vol. V. 176
    2. 1863
      In certain rare instances persons are found in an abnormal physical or zoo-physical condition; the unknown force may possible be magnetic, which emanates from them.
      London Quarterly Review October 51
    3. 1868
      The pathology of that amazing zoophysical apparatus [sc. the eye] is necessarily bound to the mathematical physiology of light.
      St. George's Hospital Reports vol. 3 397
    4. 1907
      Particular interest attaches to their tectonic and zoöphysical studies of the growth of Celebes in the Miocene and Pliocene epochs.
      Bulletin America Geogr. Society vol. 39 506
    5. 1978
      Kiel Univ. (West Germany). Zoophysical lab.
      Sel. Water Resources Abstracts (U.S. Office of Water Research & Technology) Organizational Index 126/3

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.