Definition of Microcosmos

1. Noun. A small or microscopic cosmos; a microcosm. ¹

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Definition of Microcosmos

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcosmos

microcontinents
microcontroller
microcontrollers
microcopies
microcopy
microcornea
microcosm
microcosmic
microcosmic salt
microcosmical
microcosmically
microcosmographies
microcosmography
microcosmoi
microcosmos (current term)
microcosmoses
microcosms
microcoulomb
microcoustic
microcrack
microcracked
microcracking
microcracks
microcredit
microcredits
microcrith
microcriths
microcrystal
microcrystalline

Literary usage of Microcosmos

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

1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"microcosmos. The Discovery of the Little World, with the government thereof. Manilius- • An mirum est habitare Deum sub pectore nostro ? ..."

2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Davies, microcosmos, p. 12. Driue on thy flocke then to the motley plaines bles plods, Thou, with thine oaten reede and quaintest Where by some prill that ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"He also wrote: 'microcosmos, or the History of Man' (1619); 'The King's Tower and Triumphal Arch of London* (1623). Purdue University, the Indiana State ..."

4. Architectvre, Mysticism and Myth by William Richard Lethaby (1892)
"CHAPTER II THE microcosmos ' The altar cell was a dome low-lit, And a veil hung in the midst of it; At the pole points of its circling girth Four symbols ..."

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