cosmicadj.

Brit.

/ˈkɒzmɪk/, U.S.

/ˈkɑzmɪk/

Etymology: < Greek κοσμικός of the world or universe, < κόσμος order, the world. Compare French cosmique.

†1. Of this world, worldly. Obsolete.

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1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. vii. xiii. 96 He must turne from his Imagining in the Cosmick Spirit [L. in spiritu mundi] wherewith the soule is covered and disguised.

a. Of or belonging to the universe considered as an ordered system or totality; relating to the sum or universal system of things. Also, universal; infinite; immense.

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the world > the universe > [adjective]

universala1393

macrocosmical1616

mundane1642

systematical1671

cosmical1686

cosmic1846

pancosmic1853

macrocosmic1862

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > universal

universala1393

worldly1538

catholic1552

ecumenical1607

universary1642

panica1661

global1835

cosmic1846

pancosmic1853

universalistic1872

mondial1908

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge

un-i-fohOE

ormeteOE

hugea1275

un-i-feiec1275

infinitec1385

ponderousa1400

hugeful1413

hugyc1420

thrice1470

felon?a1500

hugeousa1529

enormous1544

enormc1560

fell1586

prodigious1601

immensive1604

colossic1607

monumental1632

vast1637

unfathomed1659

colossal1664

ponderose1680

heroic1785

colossian1794

pyramidal1849

astronomical1871

astronomic1923

stratospheric1932

cosmic1935

ginormous1942

galactic1960

mega1968

humongous1970

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 496 The one unchangeable cosmic substance.

1869 W. James Let. 21 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 291 We can hope for much from education towards the development of cosmic sympathies (so to say) and disinterested sentiments.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 11 Metaphysics is the knowledge of the absolute or cosmic reason so far as it is knowable by our limited individualised reason.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 109 The great cosmic law of gravitation.

1877 W. K. Clifford Lect. (1886) 394 (title) Cosmic emotion. By a cosmic emotion—the phrase is Mr. Henry Sidgwick's—I mean an emotion which is felt in regard to the universe or sum of things, viewed as a cosmos or order.

1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 910/1 Einstein found that a world without matter could not be reconciled with his cosmic equations.

1935 B. Russell Relig. & Sci. ii. 24 If Man had the cosmic significance assigned to him in traditional philosophy.

1947 D. Aaron in Partisan Rev. XIV. 103 They suffer from a cosmic ennui which only lynchings and love-nests can mitigate.

1955 A. Powell Acceptance World 6 His habitual air of hardly suppressed irritation tended to cloak any minor emotion by the strength of its cosmic resentment.

1958 H. Nicolson in N.Y. Times 16 Mar. vii. 1/2 The Civil War..which..he regards..as a cosmic clash between strong men and massive principles.

1958 G. J. Warnock Eng. Philos. since 1900 xi. 145 How undesirable..for philosophers to pretend to suffer from cosmic anxieties.

1968 T. L. Swihart Astrophysics & Stellar Astron. xxvii. 253 If the Universe is evolving or changing with time, then it can be used as a clock for the measurement of a universal or cosmic time.

b. cosmic philosophy n. = cosmism n.

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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > theory > [noun]

cosmology1656

cosmogony1696

cosmism1861

cosmic philosophy1874

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > cosmism

cosmism1861

cosmic philosophy1874

1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. I. 98 The Cosmic Philosophy, which aims only to organize into a universal body of truth the sum of general conclusions obtained by science, adopts as the only trustworthy guide for its inquiries the method of science.

1879 A. H. Edgren tr. V. Rydberg Magic Middle Ages iv. 181 Supernatural ideas in cosmic philosophy will destroy reason, morality, human feeling.

a. Belonging to the material universe as distinguished from the earth; extra-terrestrial. cosmic dust, minute particles of matter in space or of cosmic origin.

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the world > the universe > space > [adjective]

apogeana1644

ultramundane1656

extramundane1661

super-aerial1664

outworldish1674

unterrestrial1745

transmundane1777

extra-terrene1843

cosmical1849

extra-telluric1868

extra-terrestrial1868

exterrestrial1870

cosmic1876

extra-tellurian1881

supermundane1883

Uranian1908

contraterrene1946

space-borne1952

space-borne1967

spacy1967

the world > the universe > diffused matter > [noun] > cosmic dust

stardust1841

stardust1867

meteor dust1868

cosmic dust1876

1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) ii. v. 460 Whether..the..molten condition of our planet was..due to the collision of cosmic masses or not.

1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope §706 The presence of extremely minute particles..which there is strong reason for regarding as cosmic dust.

1903 A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics ii. iii. 189 The entire Orion region..is pervaded with cosmic fog.

1927 A. S. Eddington Stars & Atoms 67 This..demonstrates the existence of a cosmic cloud pervading the stellar system.

1958 New Statesman 23 Aug. 214/2 Jeans's volcanic ash has been replaced today by the theory of ‘cosmic dust’—a much more intriguing one. This maintains that the elemental particles from which the celestial bodies have been formed and which are travelling in Space get caught in the gravitational field of the moon and settle on it.

1962 Listener 29 Nov. 902/2 Studies of ‘cosmic dust’ in space.

1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) xvi. 465 A great complex of cosmic clouds is centered in the region of Scorpius and Ophiuchus.

1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) xvi. 468 Interstellar lines..are absorbed in the spectra of stars by intervening cosmic gas.

1968 Nature 7 Dec. 1016/1 A good criterion for recognizing particles of cosmic dust on the Earth is the detection of radionuclides such as aluminium-26, formed by the action of cosmic rays on dust in free space.

b. Characteristic of the vast scale of the universe and its changes; applied to the distances between the heavenly bodies, the periods of time occupied in their cycles, the velocity with which they move, and the like. In modern use spec. pertaining to space travel (frequently representing Russian kosmičeskij cosmic: so cosmic rocket = space rocket, etc.).

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the world > the universe > [adjective] > in scale

cosmical1849

cosmic1879

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun]

rocket1919

moon rocket1921

space rocket1928

space gun1929

step rocket1932

ion rocket1936

photon rocket1949

rockoon1953

space launcher1955

launcher1958

cosmic rocket1959

ullage rocket1961

1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. ix. 197 The play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time.

a1893 Mod. What is the speed of an express train to the cosmic speed of a planet in its orbit?

1931 D. Lasser Conquest of Space (1932) iv. 54 If this rocket motor..were attached to a vehicle of any kind that vehicle could, again in theory, be propelled forward at almost cosmic velocity.

1959 Economist 10 Jan. 107/2 The world heard of Russia's ‘cosmic rocket..launched toward the moon’ early on the morning of January 3rd.

1961 Flight 79 300/1 When the speed of the rocket had reached the first cosmic speed, a heavy Satellite separated from the rocket, carrying a cosmic rocket on which was mounted an automatic interplanetary station.

1962 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 21/3 Prof. Egorov said..‘Interplanetary stations..will serve for refuelling cosmic ships and so on. I think these cosmic flights are one more stage in making man master of cosmic space in flights round the earth and other planets.’

c. cosmic rays n. high-energy radiations with great penetrative power which are incident on the earth from all directions and which originate in outer space (primary radiation) or are produced in the upper atmosphere by the primary radiation (secondary radiation); so cosmic radiation.

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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > ionizing radiation > [noun] > cosmic rays

primary1923

cosmic rays1925

1925 Millikan in Nature 5 Dec. 824/2 Our experiments brought to light..a cosmic radiation of..extraordinary penetrating power... We obtained good evidence that these cosmic rays shoot through space in all directions.

1926 R. A. Millikan & I. Bowen in Physical Rev. Apr. 355 A crucial test as to whether there is such a cosmic radiation as the Hess-Kolhörster data seemed to require.

1926 R. A. Millikan & R. M. Otis in Physical Rev. June 658 If cosmic rays exist at all..they must be more penetrating than any one had as yet suggested.

1928 Nature Suppl. 7 Jan. 19/1 The cosmic radiation is defined as that small portion of the ‘penetrating radiation’ which is of cosmic origin.

1928 Nature Suppl. 7 Jan. 21/2 All this [sc. the experiments of Millikan and Cameron] constitutes pretty unambiguous evidence that the high altitude rays do not originate in our atmosphere, very certainly not in the lower nine-tenths of it, and justifies the designation ‘cosmic rays’.

1945 H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes viii. 79 All the piles depend on stray neutrons from spontaneous fission or cosmic rays to initiate the reaction.

1957 Encycl. Brit. VI. 496 b/2 Most of the primary cosmic rays collide with atoms in the air, making new particles to proceed at great speeds in nearly the same direction as the primaries. These new particles are called secondary cosmic rays.

1958 Sci. News 48 14 Cosmic rays are extremely energetic protons and other atomic nuclei which originate in the main in outer space.

1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) ix. xi. 273/2 It also appears now that the highest-energy cosmic-ray particles may be of extragalactic origin.

4. Orderly, in good order; the opposite of chaotic. rare. Cf. cosmos n.¹

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the world > relative properties > order > [adjective]

ordinatea1398

ordinaryc1475

orderly1553

rangé1830

cosmic1858

ranged1899

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. i. i. 13 Alas, the Books are not cosmic, they are chaotic.

a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 134 Rough nature I knew well already,..but here it was reduced to cosmic.

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†5. cosmic disease n. ‘a synonym of Syphilis, from the universality of its prevalence’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).

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d. cosmic string: see string n. Compounds 2.

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cosmic irony n. chiefly Literary Criticism incongruity between human intentions or expectations and the actual outcome of events, as seemingly orchestrated by fate or providence; the use of such incongruity as a literary device; cf. irony n. 3.

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1905 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 558/1 Through the transparent veil of this sociological essay one gets many a glimpse of the cosmic irony of Ibsen and the nihilistic doctrine of Nietzsche.

1915 Fortn. Rev. July 393 As if by some cosmic irony, the scientific discoveries which filled us with so much pride and hope are turned into the deadliest instruments of destruction.

1958 Eng. Jrnl. 47 254/1 Cosmic irony is everywhere in Hardy's fiction and poetry.

1989 Washington Post 22 Apr. a21/2 The great cosmic irony at work here is that this great debate on press ethics sprang from someone not getting the facts right.

2013 E. C. Link in S. Frye Cambr. Compan. C. McCarthy xii. 157 The cosmic irony which defines the human condition is layered with the frustration arising from the epistemological crisis of the individual who seeks but does not find.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cosmic
释义	cosmicadj. Brit. /ˈkɒzmɪk/, U.S. /ˈkɑzmɪk/ Etymology: < Greek κοσμικός of the world or universe, < κόσμος order, the world. Compare French cosmique. †1. Of this world, worldly. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. vii. xiii. 96 He must turne from his Imagining in the Cosmick Spirit [L. in spiritu mundi] wherewith the soule is covered and disguised. 2. a. Of or belonging to the universe considered as an ordered system or totality; relating to the sum or universal system of things. Also, universal; infinite; immense. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > [adjective] universala1393 macrocosmical1616 mundane1642 systematical1671 cosmical1686 cosmic1846 pancosmic1853 macrocosmic1862 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > universal universala1393 worldly1538 catholic1552 ecumenical1607 universary1642 panica1661 global1835 cosmic1846 pancosmic1853 universalistic1872 mondial1908 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > vast, immense, or huge un-i-fohOE ormeteOE hugea1275 un-i-feiec1275 infinitec1385 ponderousa1400 hugeful1413 hugyc1420 thrice1470 felon?a1500 hugeousa1529 enormous1544 enormc1560 fell1586 prodigious1601 immensive1604 colossic1607 monumental1632 vast1637 unfathomed1659 colossal1664 ponderose1680 heroic1785 colossian1794 pyramidal1849 astronomical1871 astronomic1923 stratospheric1932 cosmic1935 ginormous1942 galactic1960 mega1968 humongous1970 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 496 The one unchangeable cosmic substance. 1869 W. James Let. 21 Jan. in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 291 We can hope for much from education towards the development of cosmic sympathies (so to say) and disinterested sentiments. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 11 Metaphysics is the knowledge of the absolute or cosmic reason so far as it is knowable by our limited individualised reason. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 109 The great cosmic law of gravitation. 1877 W. K. Clifford Lect. (1886) 394 (title) Cosmic emotion. By a cosmic emotion—the phrase is Mr. Henry Sidgwick's—I mean an emotion which is felt in regard to the universe or sum of things, viewed as a cosmos or order. 1926 Encycl. Brit. III. 910/1 Einstein found that a world without matter could not be reconciled with his cosmic equations. 1935 B. Russell Relig. & Sci. ii. 24 If Man had the cosmic significance assigned to him in traditional philosophy. 1947 D. Aaron in Partisan Rev. XIV. 103 They suffer from a cosmic ennui which only lynchings and love-nests can mitigate. 1955 A. Powell Acceptance World 6 His habitual air of hardly suppressed irritation tended to cloak any minor emotion by the strength of its cosmic resentment. 1958 H. Nicolson in N.Y. Times 16 Mar. vii. 1/2 The Civil War..which..he regards..as a cosmic clash between strong men and massive principles. 1958 G. J. Warnock Eng. Philos. since 1900 xi. 145 How undesirable..for philosophers to pretend to suffer from cosmic anxieties. 1968 T. L. Swihart Astrophysics & Stellar Astron. xxvii. 253 If the Universe is evolving or changing with time, then it can be used as a clock for the measurement of a universal or cosmic time. b. cosmic philosophy n. = cosmism n. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > theory > [noun] cosmology1656 cosmogony1696 cosmism1861 cosmic philosophy1874 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > cosmism cosmism1861 cosmic philosophy1874 1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. I. 98 The Cosmic Philosophy, which aims only to organize into a universal body of truth the sum of general conclusions obtained by science, adopts as the only trustworthy guide for its inquiries the method of science. 1879 A. H. Edgren tr. V. Rydberg Magic Middle Ages iv. 181 Supernatural ideas in cosmic philosophy will destroy reason, morality, human feeling. 3. a. Belonging to the material universe as distinguished from the earth; extra-terrestrial. cosmic dust, minute particles of matter in space or of cosmic origin. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > space > [adjective] apogeana1644 ultramundane1656 extramundane1661 super-aerial1664 outworldish1674 unterrestrial1745 transmundane1777 extra-terrene1843 cosmical1849 extra-telluric1868 extra-terrestrial1868 exterrestrial1870 cosmic1876 extra-tellurian1881 supermundane1883 Uranian1908 contraterrene1946 space-borne1952 space-borne1967 spacy1967 the world > the universe > diffused matter > [noun] > cosmic dust stardust1841 stardust1867 meteor dust1868 cosmic dust1876 1876 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 5) ii. v. 460 Whether..the..molten condition of our planet was..due to the collision of cosmic masses or not. 1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope §706 The presence of extremely minute particles..which there is strong reason for regarding as cosmic dust. 1903 A. M. Clerke Probl. Astrophysics ii. iii. 189 The entire Orion region..is pervaded with cosmic fog. 1927 A. S. Eddington Stars & Atoms 67 This..demonstrates the existence of a cosmic cloud pervading the stellar system. 1958 New Statesman 23 Aug. 214/2 Jeans's volcanic ash has been replaced today by the theory of ‘cosmic dust’—a much more intriguing one. This maintains that the elemental particles from which the celestial bodies have been formed and which are travelling in Space get caught in the gravitational field of the moon and settle on it. 1962 Listener 29 Nov. 902/2 Studies of ‘cosmic dust’ in space. 1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) xvi. 465 A great complex of cosmic clouds is centered in the region of Scorpius and Ophiuchus. 1964 R. H. Baker Astron. (ed. 8) xvi. 468 Interstellar lines..are absorbed in the spectra of stars by intervening cosmic gas. 1968 Nature 7 Dec. 1016/1 A good criterion for recognizing particles of cosmic dust on the Earth is the detection of radionuclides such as aluminium-26, formed by the action of cosmic rays on dust in free space. b. Characteristic of the vast scale of the universe and its changes; applied to the distances between the heavenly bodies, the periods of time occupied in their cycles, the velocity with which they move, and the like. In modern use spec. pertaining to space travel (frequently representing Russian kosmičeskij cosmic: so cosmic rocket = space rocket, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > [adjective] > in scale cosmical1849 cosmic1879 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun] rocket1919 moon rocket1921 space rocket1928 space gun1929 step rocket1932 ion rocket1936 photon rocket1949 rockoon1953 space launcher1955 launcher1958 cosmic rocket1959 ullage rocket1961 1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. ix. 197 The play between organism and environment through cosmic ranges of time. a1893 Mod. What is the speed of an express train to the cosmic speed of a planet in its orbit? 1931 D. Lasser Conquest of Space (1932) iv. 54 If this rocket motor..were attached to a vehicle of any kind that vehicle could, again in theory, be propelled forward at almost cosmic velocity. 1959 Economist 10 Jan. 107/2 The world heard of Russia's ‘cosmic rocket..launched toward the moon’ early on the morning of January 3rd. 1961 Flight 79 300/1 When the speed of the rocket had reached the first cosmic speed, a heavy Satellite separated from the rocket, carrying a cosmic rocket on which was mounted an automatic interplanetary station. 1962 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 21/3 Prof. Egorov said..‘Interplanetary stations..will serve for refuelling cosmic ships and so on. I think these cosmic flights are one more stage in making man master of cosmic space in flights round the earth and other planets.’ c. cosmic rays n. high-energy radiations with great penetrative power which are incident on the earth from all directions and which originate in outer space (primary radiation) or are produced in the upper atmosphere by the primary radiation (secondary radiation); so cosmic radiation. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > radioactivity > ionizing radiation > [noun] > cosmic rays primary1923 cosmic rays1925 1925 Millikan in Nature 5 Dec. 824/2 Our experiments brought to light..a cosmic radiation of..extraordinary penetrating power... We obtained good evidence that these cosmic rays shoot through space in all directions. 1926 R. A. Millikan & I. Bowen in Physical Rev. Apr. 355 A crucial test as to whether there is such a cosmic radiation as the Hess-Kolhörster data seemed to require. 1926 R. A. Millikan & R. M. Otis in Physical Rev. June 658 If cosmic rays exist at all..they must be more penetrating than any one had as yet suggested. 1928 Nature Suppl. 7 Jan. 19/1 The cosmic radiation is defined as that small portion of the ‘penetrating radiation’ which is of cosmic origin. 1928 Nature Suppl. 7 Jan. 21/2 All this [sc. the experiments of Millikan and Cameron] constitutes pretty unambiguous evidence that the high altitude rays do not originate in our atmosphere, very certainly not in the lower nine-tenths of it, and justifies the designation ‘cosmic rays’. 1945 H. D. Smyth Gen. Acct. Devel. Atomic Energy Mil. Purposes viii. 79 All the piles depend on stray neutrons from spontaneous fission or cosmic rays to initiate the reaction. 1957 Encycl. Brit. VI. 496 b/2 Most of the primary cosmic rays collide with atoms in the air, making new particles to proceed at great speeds in nearly the same direction as the primaries. These new particles are called secondary cosmic rays. 1958 Sci. News 48 14 Cosmic rays are extremely energetic protons and other atomic nuclei which originate in the main in outer space. 1967 E. U. Condon & H. Odishaw Handbk. Physics (ed. 2) ix. xi. 273/2 It also appears now that the highest-energy cosmic-ray particles may be of extragalactic origin. 4. Orderly, in good order; the opposite of chaotic. rare. Cf. cosmos n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] ordinatea1398 ordinaryc1475 orderly1553 rangé1830 cosmic1858 ranged1899 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. i. i. 13 Alas, the Books are not cosmic, they are chaotic. a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 134 Rough nature I knew well already,..but here it was reduced to cosmic. Thesaurus » Categories » †5. cosmic disease n. ‘a synonym of Syphilis, from the universality of its prevalence’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). Draft additions 1997 d. cosmic string: see string n. Compounds 2. Draft additions September 2013 cosmic irony n. chiefly Literary Criticism incongruity between human intentions or expectations and the actual outcome of events, as seemingly orchestrated by fate or providence; the use of such incongruity as a literary device; cf. irony n. 3. ΚΠ 1905 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 558/1 Through the transparent veil of this sociological essay one gets many a glimpse of the cosmic irony of Ibsen and the nihilistic doctrine of Nietzsche. 1915 Fortn. Rev. July 393 As if by some cosmic irony, the scientific discoveries which filled us with so much pride and hope are turned into the deadliest instruments of destruction. 1958 Eng. Jrnl. 47 254/1 Cosmic irony is everywhere in Hardy's fiction and poetry. 1989 Washington Post 22 Apr. a21/2 The great cosmic irony at work here is that this great debate on press ethics sprang from someone not getting the facts right. 2013 E. C. Link in S. Frye Cambr. Compan. C. McCarthy xii. 157 The cosmic irony which defines the human condition is layered with the frustration arising from the epistemological crisis of the individual who seeks but does not find. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1649
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