rare. [f. COSMO- + -CRAT.] Lord or ruler of the world; ‘the prince of this world.’
1820. Southey, Devil’s Walk, xxviii. You will not think, great Cosmocrat! That I spend my time in fooling.
1870. E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., III. 113. Endeavouring to solve that problem which even the great cosmocrat we have alluded to seems to have found a difficult one.
So Cosmocratic a.; Cosmocrator [Gr. κοσμοκράτωρ lord of the world] = COSMOCRAT.
1831. Southey, in Q. Rev., XLV. 427. The idiosyncratic, democratic, cosmocratic, comicocratic Jeremy that he [Bentham] is.
1708. H. Dodwell, Nat. Mortality Hum. Souls, 130. Yet they reckon her [Sophia] among their proper Aeons, far exceeding the Demiurgus and Cosmocratores.
1822. T. Taylor, Apuleius, 258. The cosmocrators [planets] are the leaders of the multitude in each.
