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† little world Obs.
A literal rendering of microcosm.
c1200Ormin 17597 Mycrocossmos, þatt nemnedd iss Affterr Ennglisshe spæche Þe little werelld. 1450–80tr. Secreta Secret. 35 The philesofre callith man the litille world. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 124 If the bodie be not set on worke, the minde goeth astray, whereby this litle world is soone ouerthrowne. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. i. 10 (Qo. 1608). 1614Sylvester Little Bartas 28 The Little-World, wherein the Great is shown. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, cclix, The Little World thus Circumscribes a Nation. |