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单词 cosmos
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cosmosn.1

Brit. /ˈkɒzmɒs/, U.S. /ˈkɑzməs/, /ˈkɑzˌmoʊs/
Forms: Also 1600s cosmus, 1800s kosmos.
Etymology: < Greek κόσμος order, ornament, world or universe (so called by Pythagoras or his disciples ‘from its perfect order and arrangement’).
1.
a. The world or universe as an ordered and harmonious system.
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the world > the universe > [noun]
kindlOE
worldc1175
framea1325
creaturec1384
universityc1450
engine?1510
universal1569
universality1577
mass1587
universe1589
all1598
cosmosie1600
macrocosm1602
existence1610
system1610
megacosm1617
cosmos1650
materialism1817
world-all1847
panarchy1848
multiverse1895
metaverse1994
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis xv. 149 As the greater World is called Cosmus from the beauty thereof.
1848 tr. Humboldt's Cosmos (Bohn) I. 53 In this work I use the word Cosmos..[as] the assemblage of all things in heaven and earth, the universality of created things, constituting the perceptible world.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 12 The Pythagoreans conceived the Kosmos, or the universe, as one single system, generated out of numbers.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius xii. 324 A complete history of volcanos should.. be in harmony with the general history of the cosmos.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 11 Were it not for the indwelling reason the world would be a chaos and not a cosmos.
b. transferred. An ordered and harmonious system (of ideas, existences, etc.), e.g. that which constitutes the sum-total of ‘experience’.
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1882 T. H. Green Proleg. Ethics §145 Sensations which do not amount to perceptions, make no lodgment in the cosmos of our experience, add nothing to our knowledge.
1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams ii. iii. 155 The confusion which reigns in his [man's] cosmos extends to his notion of what is in the mind and what is out of it.
2. Order, harmony: the opposite of chaos.
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the world > relative properties > order > [noun]
ordera1382
cosmos1858
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. ii. i. 72 Hail, brave Henry..still visible as a valiant Son of Cosmos and Son of Heaven.
1872 W. Minto Man. Eng. Prose Lit. i. iii. 187 Work, the panacea which alone brings order out of confusion, cosmos out of chaos.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cosmosn.2

Forms: Also 1600s cossmos, cosmus.
Etymology: Variant of koumiss n.Apparently due to some error of transcription.
Obsolete.
= koumiss n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > other alcoholic drinks > [noun] > from milk
cosmos1598
koumiss1598
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 97 Their drinke called Cosmos, which is mares milke.
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 167 As the Arabians, so they [sc. Tartars], delight in sower milke, or Cosmus.
1630 J. Smith True Trav. 27 In Summer they drinke most Cossmos.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

cosmosn.3

Brit. /ˈkɒzmɒs/, U.S. /ˈkɑzməs/, /ˈkɑzˌmoʊs/
Etymology: modern Latin (A. J. Cavanilles Icones et Descriptiones Plantarum (1791) I. 9), < Greek κόσμος ornament; so named from its elegant foliage.
A plant of the genus of Compositæ so named, native to tropical America, species of which, bearing rose, scarlet, and purple single dahlia-like blossoms, are cultivated as hardy annuals and perennials.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers
ox-eyea1400
starwort?a1450
Jupiter's beard1567
goldenrod1568
achillea1597
blue camomile1597
blue daisy1597
cineraria1597
hog's bean1597
jackanapes on horseback1597
sea-starwort1597
sultan flower1629
mouse-ear1696
aster1706
Canada goldenrod1731
ageratum1737
rudbeckia1751
coreopsis1753
melampodium1754
Aaron's rod1760
zinnia1761
Michaelmas daisy1767
China aster1785
New England aster1785
catananche1798
sea-aster1812
cosmea1813
cosmos1813
gazania1813
erigeron1815
gousblom1822
Christmas daisy1829
rhodanthe1834
tassel-flower1836
ligularia1839
old maid1839
mountain daisy1848
purple coneflower1848
acroclinium1852
sea ox-eye1856
thimble-weed1860
helipterum1862
treasure-flower1866
Swan River daisy1873
blanket flower1879
cone-flower1879
blue marguerite1882
Solidago1883
yellow-top1887
Gaillardia1888
gerbera1889
youth and old age1889
pussytoes1892
niggerhead1893
Transvaal daisy1899
Barberton daisy1906
onion grass1909
ursinia1928
Cupid's dart1930
Livingstone daisy1932
1813 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 37 1535 Fine-leaved Cosmea... This beautiful plant..was described and figured by the late Rev. Ant. Jos. Cavanilles, in the year 1791,..[who] gave it the name Cosmos, from its ornamental appearance, since changed by Willdenow to Cosmea, such termination being more consonant with botanical usage.
1910 C. Harris Eve's Husband 295 I wore a muslin with faded lavender-colored cosmos blossoms in it.
1911 C. Harris Eve's Second Husband xiv. 278 You have that muslin with the purple cosmos flowers in it.
1920 Rec. Home & Foreign Mission Work United Free Church Scotl. Dec. 226/2 Patches of white and magenta flowers called Cosmos.
1922 Glasgow Herald 25 Jan. 8 The pale delicacy of great beds of cosmos.
1929 Encycl. Brit. VI. 493/1 The common cosmos..has a smoothish stem bearing much-cut, narrowly-lobed leaves and flower-heads with a yellow centre.
1956 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) Suppl. 19/1 Most of the garden varieties of Cosmos are derived from Cosmos bipinnatus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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