"Intended to do good; of beneficent tendency", Late 18th cent.; earliest use found in Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), philosopher, jurist, and reformer. From ancient Greek ἀγαθός good + -poietic, after Hellenistic Greek ἀγαθοποιός doing good, beneficent.[agathopoietic etymology, agathopoietic origin, 英语词源]