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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as microcosmic.

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  • adjective Alternative form of microcosmic.

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Examples

  • The novel in itself is constructed as a network where macrocosmical and microcosmical, real, oniric and fictional layers mirror back at each other, while they are travelled and transgressed continuously by the narrative voice.

    Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature 2008

  • The half, however, has not been told; and we must now pass on to speak of lunar influences upon the birth, health, intellect, and fortune of microcosmical man.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • As well as in certain other particulars, the life of a country house is microcosmical in this -- escape from the requirements of human relationship is impossible.

    Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

  • Calculate thyself within; seek not thyself in the moon, but in thine own orb or microcosmical circumference.

    Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

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