a. [f. Gr. κοσμοπλάστ-ης framer of the world (f. κόσμο-ς world + πλάστης molder) + -IC: cf. PLASTIC.]
† 1. Maintaining an inanimate plastic nature to be the highest principle of the universe. Obs.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., Pref. 10. A fourth atheistick form … concluded the whole world … to be … onely one huge plant or vegetable, having an artificial, plantal, and plastick nature … those cosmo-plastick and hylozoick atheisms. Ibid., I. iii. 143. The stoical or cosmo-plastick Atheists.
1681. Hallywell, Melampr., 84 (T.). He [Seneca] being no better than a Cosmo-plastick Atheist, i. e. he made a certain Plastick or Spermatick nature, devoid of all Animality or conscious Intellectuality, to be the highest Principle in the Universe.
2. Molding or forming the universe.
1884. G. Macdonald, Unspoken Serm., 204. To the tides of whose harmonious cosmo-plastic life all his being thenceforward lies open for interpenetration and assimilation.
