microcosmicallyadv.
/ˌmʌɪkrə(ʊ)ˈkɒzmᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌmaɪkroʊˈkɑzmᵻk(ə)li/, /ˌmaɪkrəˈkɑzmᵻk(ə)li/ In relation to the microcosm; on a microcosmic scale; minutely.
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the world > people > [adverb]
manlikelya1530
humanly1594
mortally1609
human-like1700
microcosmically1864
1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 420 The great And holy war which raged 'twixt earth and Heaven, Betwixt the pious race and impious tribes, And microcosmically still in man.
1881 F. M. Müller tr. I. Kant Critique Pure Reason I. ii. 363 I might call the two former [ideas], in a narrower sense, cosmical concepts (macrocosmically or microcosmically) and the remaining two transcendent concepts of nature.
1942 Mind 51 235 A microcosmic being exists microcosmically under divine reference in constitutive communitas with a complement that is not absolutely other; and under self-reference in indefinitely continuing commerce of cooperation and opposition with an imaginative other.
1961 Jrnl. Politics 23 53 The dual organization of the natural whole emerges at last as the model of political life: that dual organization is microcosmically repeated in human community and in the human being.
1980 Church Times 22 Feb. 11/1 Something very like that great macrocosmic agony of creation seems to happen microcosmically in the lives of each one of us.
1987 N.Y. Times 4 Jan. i. ii. 45/1 Webern's later works are microcosmically concise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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