a. [f. as prec. + -AL.]
† 1. Relating to the world, i.e., the earth; geographical. Obs. rare.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 82. Wheare thow supposest therefor, that here Italye fast by Dooth stand … Withdraw thy iudgment from that grosse cosmical erroure.
1819. G. S. Faber, Dispens. (1823), II. 166. The tabernacle represented the world: whence the … apostle terms it [Heb. ix. 1] a cosmical or mundane sanctuary.
2. = COSMIC 2.
1685. Boyle, Enq. Notion Nat., 37. We may make use of one or other of these Terms, Fabrick of the World, System of the Universe, Cosmical Mechanism.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 297. This original cosmical meaning of the Greek gods, though lost by anthropomorphism to the vulgar.
1865. Grote, Plato, I. i. 14, note. This Pythagorean cosmical system.
1878. Stewart & Tait, Unseen Univ., vi. § 186. 190. There may be many cosmical intelligences, each embracing the whole universe.
b. = COSMIC 2 b.
1856. Meiklejohn, trans. Kant’s Crit. P. R. (1884), 256. I term all transcendental ideas in so far as they relate to the absolute totality in the synthesis of phænomena cosmical conceptions.
1861. B. Powell, in Ess. & Rev., (ed. 5), 133. Those thoroughly versed in cosmical philosophy.
3. = COSMIC 3.
1849. Herschel, Outl. Astron., 538. That … our view is limited by a sort of cosmical veil which extinguishes the smaller magnitudes.
1869. Phillips, Vesuvius, xii. 324. General terrestrial or cosmical conditions.
1882. Proctor, Fam. Science Studies, 47. Subtle signs of the earth’s passage through cosmical dust.
b. = COSMIC 3 b.
1842–3. Grove, Corr. Phys. Forces (ed. 6), 70. A term which … sinks into nothing with reference to cosmical time, if cosmical time be not eternity.
4. Of or pertaining to COSMISM.
1861. Gresley, Sophron & N., 74. Cosmical or Atheistical opinions.
5. Astron. Occurring at sunrise, coincident with the rising of the sun; said of the rising or setting of a star.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., III. I. xxxv. (ed. 7), 348. The Cosmicall setting … is when a starre goeth downe under the Horizon at such time as the Sunne riseth.
1638. Penit. Conf., viii. (1657), 257. The Cosmical and Acronical rising and setting of such asterismes.
1726. trans. Gregory’s Astron., I. 232. The Cosmical rising and setting is all one with the Morning rising or setting, as if the beginning of the Artificial Day, or the Rising of the Sun, were the same with that of the World.
1826. Colebrooke, Misc. Ess. (1873), II. 372. It is the heliacal rising, not the cosmical, which governs certain religious rites.
