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单词 cosmoplastic
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cosmoplasticadj.

/kɒzməʊˈplastɪk/
Etymology: < Greek κοσμοπλάστης framer of the world ( < κόσμος world + πλάστης moulder) + -ic suffix: compare plastic n. and adj.
1. Maintaining an inanimate plastic nature to be the highest principle of the universe. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [adjective] > relating to other theories
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1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. **v A Fourth Atheistick Form..concluded the whole World..to be..onely One Huge Plant or Vegetable, having an Artificial, Plantal, and Plastick Nature..those Cosmo-Plastick, and Hylozoick Atheisms.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 143 The Stoical or Cosmo-plastick Atheist.
1681 H. Hallywell Melampronoea 84 He [sc. Seneca] being no better than a Cosmo-plastick Atheist, i.e. he made a certain Plastick or Spermatick nature, devoid of all Animality or conscious Intellectuality, to be the highest Principle in the Universe.
2. Moulding or forming the universe.
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1884 G. MacDonald Unspoken Serm. 204 To the tides of whose harmonious cosmo-plastic life all his being thence~forward lies open for interpenetration and assimilation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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