单词 | microcosmical |
释义 | microcosmicaladj. = microcosmic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > people > [adjective] > relating to mankind mannisheOE fleshlyc1175 manlya1225 fleshya1400 human1495 microcosmical1570 microcosmala1644 anthropic1816 microcosmic1816 humanitary1851 hominal1861 hominine1883 neanthropic1894 pan-human1900 sapient1971 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. ciiij Whereby, good profe will be had, of our Harmonious, and Microcosmicall constitution. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 69 This opinion confirmed would much advance the microcosmicall conceite, and commend the Geography of Paracelsus. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. viii. ii. 151 Aristotle speaks of the Heart, the Microcosmical Sun in man's production. 1691 T. Tryon Pythagoras his Mystick Philos. Reviv'd iii. 35 The perfect memory of, and advantage to be made by Dreams, does chiefly consist in the cleanness of the Microcosmical Temple. 1790 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. (new ed.) i. 67 He [sc. man] hath a microcosmical sun, moon, and stars within himself. 1870 J. H. Beadle Life in Utah 274 The mental, moral and spiritual world is but a microcosmical copy of the material. 1878 Catholic World Feb. 657/1 The whole plan of God in creating the universe, and elevating it through the microcosmical being man by the Incarnation. 1943 Jrnl. Politics 40 428 Microcosmical and macrocosmical advances supplement each other. 1990 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 59 381 Shugart argued for the complementarity of models—both mathematical and microcosmical. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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