cosmologicaladj.
/kɒzməʊˈlɒdʒɪkəl/ 1. Of or pertaining to cosmology. cosmological argument (for the existence of God): that form of proof which reasons from an actual existence, a contingent object of experience, to an absolutely necessary condition of that existence: see quot. 1867.
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1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 177 The Proof first mentioned..(the Cosmological I mean..) presupposes the Ontological.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 39 When Whiston first began his cosmological studies.
1867 J. H. Stirling tr. A. Schwegler Handbk. Hist. Philos. xxxviii. 229 The cosmological proof..If anything exists, there must exist an absolutely necessary being as its cause. But I myself at all events exist, therefore there exists also an absolutely necessary being as my cause [etc.].
1881 Ramsay in Nature No. 618. 420 Cosmological speculations.
2. cosmological constant n. = cosmical constant n. at cosmical adj. 6.
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1928 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 7th Ser. 5 835 λ is the cosmological constant.
1932 A. Einstein & W. de Sitter in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 18 213 Historically the term containing the ‘cosmological constant’ λ was introduced into the field equations in order to enable us to account theoretically for the existence of a finite mean density in a static universe.
1970 Nature 28 Nov. 845/1 The cosmological constant acts so as to provide a gravitational force in local Newtonian co~ordinates that increases linearly with distance r from the local Newtonian origin.
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