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cosmo-
before a vowel cosm-, combining form of Gr. κόσµος cosmos, as in cosmoˈcentric a., centred in the cosmos; † cosmoˈcritics, critical investigations of the world or universe; † cosˈmodelyte (see quot.); ˈcosmodrome [aerodrome], a launching site for spacecraft in Russia; cosˈmosophy, knowledge or science of the cosmos; † cosmo-teˈllurian (see quot.); † cosmo-ˈzoism, the theory that the cosmos is endowed with life (see quot.). See also following words.
a1866J. Grote Moral Ideals (1876) 189 Becoming..*cosmocentric instead of autocentric in our knowledge. 1907W. R. Inge Pers. Idealism 103 Constructing our universe on a Christocentric or cosmocentric basis, not a self-centred one. 1913A. J. Hubbard Fate of Empires ii. vii. 167 The Chinese [people] must be classed as one profoundly moved by the sense of cosmocentric duty.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. xiv. 354 Gemma's *Cosmocriticks.
1656Blount Glossogr., *Cosmodelyte, may be derived from κόσµος mundus, and δεῖλος, timidus or miser; and so Englished, one fearful of the world, or a worldly wretch. [Hence in Bailey (1721–90).]
1953Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. XII. 81 Soviet..artificial satellites..will be launched from an extensive ‘*cosmodrome’ at Kaluga. 1964Yearbook Astr. 1965 139 The Russians have always been unwilling to open their research centres, plant and cosmodromes to Western observers. 1970Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 5/6 The capsule..landed..about 125 miles from the cosmodrome from which it was launched.
1848Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. IV. 578 The various sophy's—*cosmosophy, kerdosophy. 1867J. H. Stirling Schwegler's Hist. Philos. (ed. 8) 350 Erdmann views the Theosophy of the middle ages as a necessary complement to the Cosmosophy of the ancients.
1882Syd. Soc. Lex., *Cosmo-tellurian influences, conditions, celestial and terrestrial, such as eclipses, stellar influences..earthquakes, and the like, which were formerly supposed to affect the constitution..of various diseases.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. I. iii. §26. 132 That the whole world..was..an animal, as our human bodies are, endued with one sentient or rational life and nature, one soul or mind, governing and ordering the whole. Which Corporeal *Cosmo-zoism we do not reckon amongst the Forms of Atheism. |