cosmist
(ˈkɒzmɪst)
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A believer in cosmism; a Secularist.
| 1861 G. J. Holyoake Limits of Atheism (1874) 11 It is the first instinct of the Cosmist..to keep his mind open to reason. 1861 Gresley Sophron & N. 68 The Cosmist asks for a proof of the existence of the Great Spirit; he calls on us to prove that the world is not self-existent, self-creating. 1883 Pall Mall G. 23 Nov. 3/1 The prosecutor..declined to give his evidence on oath because he was a ‘Cosmist’, which he subsequently explained meant ‘much the same as a Secularist or an Agnostic’. |