cosmogony

• Theogony recapitulates cosmogony-and Nancy and I, starving, headed out for a great Vietnamese dinner. ecr. l'inf. —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
• I had had no lessons in cosmogony, and I had no spontaneous revelation of the true position of the earth in the universe. —  The Promised Land
• His cosmogony, his manner of tracing, a priori_, the development of all things from the absolute, was considered, by those who understand such profundities, to be deficient in accuracy. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• It would be well if some of our public men would consider that Providence has saved their modesty the trial of an experiment in cosmogony, and that their task is the difficult, no doubt, but much simpler and less ambitious one, of bringing back the confused material which lies ready to their hand, always with a divinely implanted instinct of order in it, to as near an agreement with the providential intention as their best wisdom can discern. —  The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
• The work by Philo of Byblos is a euhemeristic interpretation of an alleged Phoenician cosmogony, and a composition of little merit. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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