Cosmographer
(Cos*mog"ra*pher) n. One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens
and the earth.
The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers.
Robynson
Cosmographic
(Cos`mo*graph"ic) Cosmographical
(Cos`mo*graph"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. cosmographique.]
Of or pertaining to cosmography.
Cosmographically
(Cos`mo*graph"ic*al*ly), adv. In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.
Cosmography
(Cos*mog"ra*phy) n.; pl. Cosmographies [Gr. the world + to write: cf. F. cosmographie.]
A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole
system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.
Cosmolabe
(Cos"mo*labe) n. [Gr. the world + to take: cf. F. cosmolade.] An instrument resembling
the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; - - called also pantacosm.
Cosmolatry
(Cos*mol"a*try) n. Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.
Cosmoline
(Cos"mo*line) n. [Prob. fr. cosmetic + L. oleum oil.] (Chem.) A substance obtained from
the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer
consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.
Cosmological
(Cos`mo*log"ic*al) a. Of or pertaining to cosmology.
Cosmologist
(Cos*mol"o*gist) n. One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
Cosmology
(Cos*mol"o*gy) n. [Gr. ko`smos the world + - logy: cf. F. cosmologie.] The science of
the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements
of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Cosmometry
(Cos*mom"e*try) n. ko`smos the world + -metry.]—> The art of measuring the world or
the universe. Blount.
Cosmoplastic
(Cos`mo*plas"tic) a. [Gr. ko`smos the world + pla`ssein to form.] Pertaining to a plastic
force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and
hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.
Cosmopolitan
(Cos`mo*pol"i*tan) Cosmopolite
(Cos*mop"o*lite) n. [Gr. ko`smos the world + citizen,
city: cf. F. cosmopolitain, cosmopolite.] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every
place; a citizen of the world.
Cosmopolitan
(Cos`mo*pol"i*tan, Cos*mop"o*lite), a.
1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite.
Sir
W. Hamilton.
2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.
The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan.
R. Owen.
Cosmopolitanism
(Cos`mo*pol"i*tan*ism) n. The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.
Cosmopolite
(Cos*mop"o*lite) a. & n. See Cosmopolitan.
