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Definition of Cosmologic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe. "Cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe"

2. Adjective. Pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality. "A cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmologic

cosmographic cosmographical cosmographically cosmographies cosmographist cosmographists cosmography cosmoi cosmolabe cosmolabes

cosmolatry cosmoline cosmolined cosmolines cosmolining cosmologic (current term) cosmological cosmological argument cosmological arguments cosmological city

cosmological constant cosmological decade cosmological horizon cosmological natural selection cosmological perturbation theory cosmological principle cosmological redshift cosmological scale cosmological term cosmologically

Literary usage of Cosmologic

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

1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1884)
"... his dualism bears on the argument called cosmologic, which shows that every phenomenon has a cause, since it is a change determined by an antecedent. ..."

2. Primitive and Universal Laws of the Formation and Development of Language: A by Frederic Pincott, Calixte-Auguste Godde de Liancourt (1874)
"... and insult of contumelious opulence. b Godfrey Wilhelm, Baron de Leibnitz, two centuries ago, propounded the theory of the cosmologic system of monads ..."

3. Primitive and Universal Laws of the Formation and Development of Language: A by Caliste Auguste Godde de Liancourt, Frederic Pincott (1874)
"... propounded the theory of the cosmologic system of monads (/uoi/a'y), which was, and is, the most rational hypothesis, but also the most subtle, ..."

4. The First Words from God by Francis William Upham (1894)
"... for signs of its presence in cosmologic Ideas, widely spread abroad among those widely-separated nations, prove it was a fount of their cosmologic ..."

5. Outlines of the History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack (1893)
"... he thought to link together in a conservative sense everything valuable and to bring to a kind of equilibrium the divers factors (cosmologic and ..."

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