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Webster 1913 Edition
Cosmographer
Cos-mog′ra-pher
(-r?-f?r)
, Noun.
One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.
The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient
cosmographers
. Robynson (More’s Utopia).
Webster 1828 Edition
Cosmographer
COSMOGRAPHER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
cosmographer
cosmographer
English
Noun
cosmographer (plural cosmographers)
- (astrophysics) A scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe.
- (obsolete) Someone who describes the world; a geographer or anthropologist.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- And if it be (as Cosmographers report) that there are Nations, who receive and admit a Dogge to be their King, it must necessarily follow, that they give a certaine interpretations to his voice and moving.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
Synonyms
- (?): cosmographist
Related terms
Translations
scientist specializing in understanding and describing the nature of the universe
(obsolete) someone who describe the world