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語源

From Ancient Greek τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “type”) +‎ Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) +‎ -y.

発音

• enPR: tī′pō.kŏz′mi
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtaɪ̯.pəʊ̯ˌkɒz.mɪ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈtaɪ̯.poʊ̯ˌkɑz.miː/

名詞

typocosmy (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The representation of the world.
   • 1910 [1605], Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning‎, London: Macmillan, →OL, page 93:

     Such was the travail of Raymundus Lullius, in making that art which bears his name; not unlike to some books of typocosmy, which have been made since; being nothing but a mass of words of all arts, to give men countenance, that those which use the terms might be thought to understand the art; which collections are much like a fripper’s or broker’s shop, that hath ends of everything, but nothing of worth.

   • 1914 January 15, Huntly Carter, “The Public Ownership of the Artist”, in The Egoist, volume 1, number 2, page 33:

     Here Spirit is conceived of as Substance, and Matter as the typocosmy apparent to the senses, and which we call the world.

   • 1967, Ellic Howe, chapter 10, in Urania’s Children: The Strange World of the Astrologers‎, London: William Kimber, →ISBN, page 145:

     Typocosmy was at once a mystical, esoteric form of astrology and a private philosophical or cosmological system based upon Krafft’s exalted visions of the macrocosm and the microcosm.

参照

• Samuel Johnson (15 April 1755), “TYPOCOSMY”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan, for J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton;  […], →OCLC.
• Walker, John (1791), “typocosmy”, in A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: G. G. J. and J. Robinſon […] and T. Cadell, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “typocosmy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “typocosmy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.