cosmopolicy (kozmopolisi)

[ policy 1.] Cosmopolitan or universal I have finished the rough sketch of my poem. As I have not abated an iota of the infidelity or cosmopolicy of it, sufficient will remain, exclusively of innumerable faults, invisible to partial eyes, to make it very unpopular. Shelley, in Dowden, I. 341. cosmopolitan (koz-mō-pol'i-tan), a. and n. [As cosmopolite + -an, after metropolitan.] I. a. 1. Belonging to all parts of the world; limited or restricted to no one part of the social, political, commercial, or intellectual world; limited to no place, country, or group of individuals, but common to all. Capital is becoming more and more cosmopolitan . J. S. Mill . We revere in Dante that compre ed force of life-long pa ion which could make a private experience cosmopoli tan in its reach and everlasting in its significance. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 171. Hence-2. Free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.-3. Characteristic of a cosmopolite: as, cosmopolitan manners.4. Widely distributed over the globe: said of plants and animals. II. n. One who has no fixed residence; one who is free from provincial or national prejudices; one who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world; a cosmopolite. cosmopolitanism (koz-mō-pol'i-tan-izm), п. [ He [Comte] preached cosmopolitanism , but remained the quinte ence of a French man. N. A. Rev., CXX. 246. After the overthrow of the great Napoleonic Empire, a reaction against cosmopolitanism and a romantic enthusiasm for nationality spread over Europe like an epidemic. D. M. Wallace, Ru ia, p. 413.