cosmoplastic, a.
(kɒzməʊˈplæstɪk)
[f. Gr. κοσµοπλάστ-ης framer of the world (f. κόσµο-ς world + πλάστης moulder) + -ic: cf. plastic.]
† 1. Maintaining an inanimate plastic nature to be the highest principle of the universe. Obs.
| 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. Pref. 10 A fourth atheistick form..concluded the whole world..to be..onely one huge plant or vegetable, having an artificial, plantal, and plastick nature..those cosmo-plastick and hylozoick atheisms. Ibid. i. iii. 143 The stoical or cosmo-plastick Atheists. 1681 H. Hallywell Melampr. 84 (T.) He [Seneca] being no better than a cosmoplastick atheist, i.e. he made a certain plastick or spermatick nature, devoid of all animality or conscious intellectuality, to be the highest principle in the universe. |
2. Moulding or forming the universe.
| 1884 G. Macdonald Unspoken Serm. 204 To the tides of whose harmonious cosmo-plastic life all his being thence⁓forward lies open for interpenetration and assimilation. |