cosmically, adv.
(ˈkɒzmɪkəlɪ)
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. Astron. Coincidently with the rising of the sun: see cosmical 5.
| 1589 Fleming Georg. Virg. i. 8 Cosmically, not heliacally: for these two, rising and setting, are ascribed to the stars. 1605 Camden Rem. (1657) 88 The Holy Bishop of Winchester..called the weeping Saint Swithin, for that about his feast Præsepe and Aselli, rainie constellations, do arise cosmically, and commonly cause raine. 1809 Colebrooke in Asiat. Res. IX. 357 The star, rising cosmically, became visible in the oblique sphere, at the distance of 60° from the sun. 1876 G. F. Chambers Astron. 914 A heavenly body is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets at sunrise. |
2. In a cosmic or cosmical way; in relation to the cosmos.
| 1854 Greg (title), Observations on Meteorolites or Aerolites, considered Geographically, Statistically, and Cosmically. 1871 Fraser Life Berkeley x. 395 All our sense-phenomena..are indeed cosmically associated. |