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Definition of Cosmic

1. Adjective. Of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe. "Cosmic rays"

Definition of Cosmic

1. a. Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.

Definition of Cosmic

1. Adjective. Of or from or pertaining to the cosmos or universe. ¹

2. Adjective. Infinitely or inconceivably extended; vast ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cosmic

1. pertaining to the cosmos [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmic

Literary usage of Cosmic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Plasma Physics Of The Local Cosmos by National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Solar and Space Physics (2004)
"Without measurements within our local cosmic laboratory', we still would be oblivious of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the most powerful local ..."

2. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"It is only through these cosmic and spiritual centres that the physical centres (the upper seven orifices and the lower triad) can benefit by their Occult ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Classifying them into diffused, spiral, and planetary nebulae, Herschel considered them as so many simultaneous exponents of gradual cosmic evolution, ..."

4. Atonement in Literature and Life by Charles Allen Dinsmore (1906)
"cannot be considered apart from the problem of cosmic evil. Man cannot be reconciled with his past without a faith that God makes the wrath of man to praise ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1907)
"But the creature represented may be a mythical personage, and the cosmic Figure 1. Hopi basket tray showing ornamental use of bird figures forming a cross; ..."

6. Design in Nature: Illustrated by Spiral and Other Arrangements in the by James Bell Pettigrew (1908)
"Plants, on the whole, are more susceptible to cosmic changes than animals, ... The extent to which the cosmic changes referred to influence plants and ..."

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