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Cosmos   /kˈɑzmoʊs/   Listen
noun
Cosmos  n.  
1.
The universe or universality of created things; so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
2.
The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.


Cosmos  n.  (Bot.) A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and Cosmos diversifolius are among the best-known species; Cosmos caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.





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"Cosmos" Quotes from Famous Books



... mathematically ordered scheme, which owes life and animation to one master-thought. In spite of its complexity and scientific precision, the vault of the Sistine does not strike the mind as being artificial or worked out by calculation, but as being predestined to existence, inevitable, a cosmos instinct with vitality. ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... optimum potum, de risio, de millio, de melle: claret sicut vinum. Et defertur eis vmum remotis partibus. In state non curant nisi de Cosmos. Stat semper infra domum ad introitum port, et iuxta illud stat citharista cum citherula sua. Citheras et vielas nostras non vidi ibi, sed multa alia instrumenta, qu apud nos non habentur. Et cum incipit bibere tunc vnus mintstrorum exclamat ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt
... Divine purpose in the scheme of Creation. Each individual Physical Ego seems to be a Micro-Cosmos, imaging the Universe, the Macro-Cosmos. As the phagocytes, the policemen of the blood, flock to a breach in the human body to overcome any invasion of the enemy, whether poisons or bacteria, which would ...
— Science and the Infinite - or Through a Window in the Blank Wall • Sydney T. Klein
... continued quietly, twisting himself a cigarette with placid deliberateness, as a preliminary to his departure; 'your great mistake in life is that you WILL persist in considering the universe as a cosmos. Now the fact is, it isn't a cosmos; it's a chaos, and a very poor one ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... popular amusements by making them more philosophic. And by more philosophic I do not mean duller, but funnier; that is more varied. All real fun is in cosmic contrasts, which involve a view of the cosmos. But I know that this second strength in Shaw is really difficult to state and must be approached by explanations and even by eliminations. Let me say at once that I think nothing of Shaw or anybody else merely for ...
— George Bernard Shaw • Gilbert K. Chesterton


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