cosmoline (kozmolin)

[ from 104° to 125° F., and is a smooth unctuous substance, used in ointments, etc. IMG:content-1391.png:[graphic] = cosmological (koz-mo-loi-kal), Pg. As cos mologique = Sp. cosmológico Pg. It.cosmo Gr. κοσμολογικός, pertaining to physical philosophy, cosmologically (koz-mo-loj'i-kal-i), adv. In a cosmological manner; from a cosmological point of view. Not long since, cosmologically speaking, Jupiter was shining with cloudle self-luminosity. Winchell, World-Life, p. 434. cosmologist (koz-mol'ō-jist), n. [ cosmology + -ist .] One who investigates the problems of cosmology; one versed in cosmology. Cosmologists have built up their several theories, aqueous or igneous, of the early state of the earth. Dawson , Origin of World, p. 110. cosmology (koz-mol'ō-ji), n. [F. cosmologie = Sp. cosmología = Pg. It. cosmologia , The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary cosmology if *κοσμολογία (cf. adj. κοσμολογικός, pertaining to physical philosophy: see cosmological ), The facts of the External Order, which yield a cosmology , are supplemented by the facts of the Internal Order, which yield a psychology, and the facts of the Social Order, which yield a sociology. G. H. Lewes, Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 414. 2. That branch of metaphysics which is concerned with the a prior i discu ion of the ultimate philosophical problems relating to the world as it exists in time and space, and to the order of nature. - Rational cosmology, a philosophy of the material universe founded largely or wholly on a prior i or metaphysical principles, and not mainly on observation. = Syn. Cosmogony, Cosmology, Cosmography. Cosmogony treats of the way in which the world or the universe came to be; cosmology, of its general theory, or of its structure and parts, as it is found existing; cosmogra phy, of its appearance, or the structure, figure, relations, etc., of its parts. Each of these words may stand for a treatise upon the corresponding subject. Cosmology and cosmography are not altogether distinct.