MICROCOSM
\mˈa͡ɪkɹə͡ʊkˌɒzəm], \mˈaɪkɹəʊkˌɒzəm], \m_ˈaɪ_k_ɹ_əʊ_k_ˌɒ_z_ə_m]\
Definitions of MICROCOSM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.
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A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.
By Noah Webster.
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A little world; hence, man, as opposed to the great universe about him; opposite to macrocosm.
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Microcosmic.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Some philosophers have given this appellation to man, whom they consider as the epitome of all that is admirable in the world. The world they call Macrocosm.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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