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† typocosmy Obs. rare
[ad. mod.L. typocosmia, a. Gr. type *τυποκοσµία, f. τύπος type + κοσµεῖν to set in order.]
A method or system, intended as an aid to learning, in which words or terms are grouped according to types or classes.
Blount's definition appears to be erroneous.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xvii. §14 Such was the trauaile of Raymundus Lullius, in making that Art, which beares his name; not vnlike to some Bookes of Typocosmy, which haue beene made since, beeing nothing but a Masse of words of all Arts. 1605Camden Rem. (1636) 112 To reduce surnames to a Methode, is matter for a Ramist, who should haply finde it to be a Typocosmie. 1656Blount Glossogr., Tipocosmy or Typocosmy (typocosmia), a type or figure of the world. |