Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cosmogony; the history of the origin and development of the universe.
- noun The history of the origin and development of the inorganic universe, as distinguished from that of living beings.
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- noun dated
cosmogony
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- noun the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe
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Furthermore this cosmogeny that is an articulation of truth, the writing of the cosmic text, is open-ended and on-going, dynamically being continuously reworked.
Laughter 2009
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This linguistic cosmogeny is simultaneously ontological and de-ontological.
Laughter 2009
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His orb itself, or later the god in youthful human form, might be pictured as emerging from a lotus on the primaeval waters, or from a marsh-bird's egg, a conception which influenced the later Phoenician cosmogeny.
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition 1894
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I would consider it as yet one more confirmation of God's cosmogeny.
Latest Articles 2009
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