[ad. Gr. κοσμογένεια, or -γενία, origin of the world: see -GENY.] Origin or evolution of the universe.
1864. H. Spencer, Illustr. Univ. Progr., 125. The heavenly bodies comprehended by Cosmogeny.
1876. trans. Haeckel’s Hist. Creat., I. 321. This cosmogeny, or theory of the development of the universe.
