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Definition of Microcosmos
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microcosmos
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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