cosmogonal

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English

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Adjective

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cosmogonal (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to cosmogony.
    • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 16, in Walden:
      In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat-Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial.

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References

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  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.