Definition of Cosmist

1. a supporter of cosmism [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cosmist

cosmic ray
cosmic rays
cosmic string
cosmic teapot
cosmic time
cosmic wall
cosmical
cosmically
cosmicism
cosmid
cosmid map
cosmids
cosmine
cosmism
cosmisms
cosmist (current term)
cosmists
cosmo-
cosmochemical
cosmochemically
cosmochemist
cosmochemistry
cosmochemists
cosmochronometer
cosmochronometers
cosmocrat
cosmocratic
cosmocrats
cosmodicy
cosmodrome

Literary usage of Cosmist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Miscellaneous Writings of John Fiske: With Many Portraits of Illustrious by John Fiske (1902)
"There is to be added the consideration that for the " cosmist" the ... And the answer of the " cosmist" is that the Unknowable, as beyond the world, ..."

2. Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy by John Fiske (1902)
"There is to be added the consideration that for the " cosmist" the ... In the mind of the " cosmist"" Divine action " is therefore identified with orderly ..."

3. The Limits of Atheism; Or, Why Should Sceptics be Outlaws? by George Jacob Holyoake (1874)
"Mystery will always conquer partisans, and the cosmist who comprehends this, will reason with superstition, and never be impatient with it. ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"No true cosmist will affect to know at what precise point the process becomes so complex as to deserve the name of mind. Though the extremes seem to have ..."

5. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"No thinker was ever more a cosmist than the author of the 'Ethica,' none ever conceived the universe more completely or more consistently as an ordered ..."

6. The Anthropological Review by Anthropological Society of London (1866)
"cosmist. " The Anthropological Society is doing good service to the cause of justice and humanity in sending out a special commission to Jamaica, ..."

7. Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 by Robert Flint (1894)
"... and the former is so as much as the latter, and he fully acknowledges this, although he would prefer to be called a cosmist to being called an atheist. ..."

8. The Methodist Review (1876)
"It is certain that the pride of sinful reason could not be more effectually mortified than by an acceptance of the cosmist's creed on this point. ..."

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