microcosm (mikrokozm)

[F. micro cos me = Sp. microcósmos = Pg. It. microcosmo, little world, world (the macrocosm ). If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? Shak . , Cor., ii. 1. 68. The ancients not improperly styled him [man] a micro cosm, or little world within himself. Bacon, Physical Fables, ii., Expl. Some told me it [a mountain] was four teene miles high; it is covered with a very micro cos me of clowdes. Coryat , Crudities, I. 91. IMG:content-0588.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. A little community or society. And now the hour has come when this youth is to be launched into a world more vast than that in which he has hitherto sojourned, yet for which this microcosm has been no ill preparation. Disraeli . microcosmic (mi-krō-koz'mik), a. [= F. mi crocosmique; as microcosm +-ic.] Of or pertain ing to a microcosm or to anything that is re garded as such.-Microcosmic salt, HNANH PO4 + 4H2O, a salt of soda, ammonia, and phosphoric acid, originally obtained from human urine. It is much employed as a flux in experiments with the blowpipe. microcosmical (mi-krō-koz'mi-kal), (mi-kro-koz'mi-kal), a. [