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macrocosm
Part of speech: NounThe great world; the visible system of worlds.
Usage examples "macrocosm":- He, another recycled being with recycled thoughts, was ostensibly a creature moving forward with the train but in reality a macrocosm of the ideas within him; and these old ideas continued to circulate around the edge of his brain like hamsters whose impressions were that with each push of the nose they would find exits leading to the vertical, the forward, as if there really were a forward within one's cage, within the ideas of one's head. - "An Apostate: Nawin of Thais", Steven Sills.
- A Club is the next best thing to this, strung like a harp, with about a dozen ringing intelligences, each answering to some chord of the macrocosm. - "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).
- The first held to the old methods of Galen: its theory was that the body, the microcosm, like the macrocosm, was made up of the four elements- fire, air, water, earth; having respectively the qualities hot, dry, moist, cold. - "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).