cosmicaladj.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > [adjective]
geographical1555
cosmical1582
geographic1603
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 55 Wheare thow supposest therefor, that here Italye fast by Dooth stand..With draw thy iudgment from that grosse cosmical erroure.
1823 G. S. Faber Treat. Christian Dispensations II. ii. v. 166 The tabernacle represented the world: whence the..apostle terms it [Heb. ix. 1] a cosmical or mundane sanctuary.
2.
a. = cosmic adj. 2.
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the world > the universe > [adjective]
universala1393
macrocosmical1616
mundane1642
systematical1671
cosmical1686
cosmic1846
pancosmic1853
macrocosmic1862
1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 37 We may make use of one or other of these Terms, Fabrick of the World, System of the Universe, Cosmical Mechanism.
1850 J. S. Blackie in tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas II. 297 This original cosmical meaning of the Greek gods, though lost by anthropomorphism to the vulgar.
1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 14 note This Pythagorean cosmical system.
1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe vi. §186. 190 There may be many cosmical intelligences, each embracing the whole universe.
b. = cosmic adj. 2b.
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1856 J. M. D. Meiklejohn tr. I. Kant Crit. Pure Reason (1884) 256 I term all transcendental ideas in so far as they relate to the absolute totality in the synthesis of phænomena cosmical conceptions.
1861 B. Powell in Ess. & Rev. (ed. 5) 133 Those thoroughly versed in cosmical philosophy.
3.
a. = cosmic adj. 3.
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the world > the universe > [adjective] > in scale
cosmical1849
cosmic1879
the world > the universe > space > [adjective]
apogeana1644
ultramundane1656
extramundane1661
super-aerial1664
outworldish1674
unterrestrial1745
transmundane1777
extra-terrene1843
cosmical1849
extra-telluric1868
extra-terrestrial1868
exterrestrial1870
cosmic1876
extra-tellurian1881
supermundane1883
Uranian1908
contraterrene1946
space-borne1952
space-borne1967
spacy1967
1849 J. F. W. Herschel Outl. Astron. xv. 538 That..our view is limited by this sort of cosmical veil which extinguishes the smaller magnitudes.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius xii. 324 General terrestrial or cosmical conditions.
1882 R. A. Proctor Familiar Sci. Stud. 47 Signs of the earth's passage through cosmical dust.
b. = cosmic adj. 3b.
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1855 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 3) 81 A term which..sinks into nothing with reference to cosmical time, if cosmical time be not eternity.
4. Of or pertaining to cosmism n.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > theory > [adjective]
cosmical1861
1861 W. Gresley Sophron & Neologus 74 Cosmical or Atheistical opinions.
5. Astronomy. Occurring at sunrise, coincident with the rising of the sun; said of the rising or setting of a star.
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the world > the universe > star > stellar motion > [adjective] > rising or setting
sunly1556
cosmical1594
heliacal1607
heliac1775
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. xxxv. f. 166 The Cosmicall setting..is when a starre goeth downe vnder the Horizon at such time as the sunne riseth.
1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) viii. 257 The Cosmical and Acronical rising and setting of such asterismes.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. ii. §9. 232 The Cosmical rising and setting is all one with the Morning rising or setting, as if the beginning of the Artificial Day, or the Rising of the Sun, were the same with that of the World.
1826 H. T. Colebrooke Misc. Ess. (1873) II. 372 It is the heliacal rising, not the cosmical, which governs certain religious rites.
6. cosmical constant n. a multiplier occurring in Einstein's equations of general relativity. Cf. cosmological adj. 2.
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the world > matter > physics > relativity > [noun] > Einstein's general theory > multiplier occurring in
cosmological constant1928
cosmical constant1933
1917 A. Einstein in Sitzungsberichte Preuss. Akad. der Wissenschaften 144 An die Stelle der Poissonschen Gleichung setzen wir δϕλϕ = 4πKρ, wobei λ eine universelle Konstante bedeutet.]
1933 J. H. Jeans Universe around Us (ed. 3) i. 101 Einstein originally introduced this ‘cosmical constant’ curvature because he saw no other means of obtaining a static universe; it was in the days before the general recession of the nebulae had been noticed.
1937 G. C. McVittie Cosmol. Theory iii. 42 The cosmical constant is therefore also zero in the space-time of special relativity.
1958 Listener 11 Dec. 972/2 By introducing the cosmical constant Einstein was able to specify a static condition of the universe in which the Newtonian attraction and cosmical repulsion are in exact balance.
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