单词 | cosmos |
释义 | cosmosn.1 1. a. The world or universe as an ordered and harmonious system. ΘΚΠ 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’. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 Obsolete. = koumiss n. ΘΚΠ 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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