Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or like a cosmorama.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
cosmorama .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Macaulay's pages with the bustle and variety and animation of some glittering masque and cosmoramic revel of great books and heroical men.
Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay John Morley 1880
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They alike mistake realities for fancies; real states of flesh and blood, bone and muscle, for cosmoramic pictures on a wall.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851
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The beaming countenance of the beautiful sylph darkened in a moment, like a cosmoramic landscape.
The Wedding Guest 1847
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[82] How the cosmoramic effects here described were represented on the stage, it is difficult to say, but such descriptions are by no means rare in the poets.
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840
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They alike mistake realities for fancies; real states of flesh and blood, bone and muscle, for cosmoramic pictures on a wall.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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-- But then they are not charged for seeing the lamps; there is no charge for walking round the walks; there is no charge for looking at the cosmoramic pictures; there is no charge for casting a glance at the orchestra; there is no charge for staring at the other people; there is no charge for bowing or talking to an acquaintance, if you meet one -- all these are gratis; and if you neither eat nor drink, there is no charge for witnessing those who do mangle the long-murdered honours of the coop, and gulp down the most renovating of liquors, be they hale or stout, vite vine, red port, or rack punch.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 Various
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I propose to arrange such cosmoramic and other views as will exhibit in the clearest and most forcible light the true philosophy of life. "
Peter Cooper The Riverside Biographical Series, Number 4 1879
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