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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cosmogony; the history of the origin and development of the universe.
  • noun The history of the origin and development of the inorganic universe, as distinguished from that of living beings.

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  • noun dated cosmogony

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  • noun the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe

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  • Furthermore this cosmogeny that is an articulation of truth, the writing of the cosmic text, is open-ended and on-going, dynamically being continuously reworked.

    Laughter 2009

  • This linguistic cosmogeny is simultaneously ontological and de-ontological.

    Laughter 2009

  • His orb itself, or later the god in youthful human form, might be pictured as emerging from a lotus on the primaeval waters, or from a marsh-bird's egg, a conception which influenced the later Phoenician cosmogeny.

    Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition 1894

  • I would consider it as yet one more confirmation of God's cosmogeny.

    Latest Articles 2009

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