Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cosmical"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cosmic \Cos"mic\ (k?z"m?k), Cosmical \Cos"mic*al\ (-m?-kal), a.
[Gr. kosmiko`s of the world, fr. ko`smos: cf. F. cosmique.
See {Cosmos}.]
1. 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.

2. Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the
earth alone.

3. Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably
great; vast; as, cosmic speed. ``Cosmic ranges of time.''
--Tyndall.

4. (Astron.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite
of acronycal.


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