Cosmically

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².]

  1.  Astron. Coincidently with the rising of the sun: see COSMICAL 5.

1589.  Fleming, Georg. Virg., I. 8. Cosmically, not heliacally: for these two, rising and setting, are ascribed to the stars.

1605.  Camden, Rem. (1657), 88. The Holy Bishop of Winchester … called the weeping Saint Swithin, for that about his feast Præsepe and Aselli, rainie constellations, do arise cosmically, and commonly cause raine.

1809.  Colebrooke, in Asiat. Res., IX. 357. The star, rising cosmically, became visible in the oblique sphere, at the distance of 60° from the sun.

1876.  G. F. Chambers, Astron., 914. A heavenly body is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets at sunrise.

  2.  In a cosmic or cosmical way; in relation to the cosmos.

1854.  Greg (title), Observations on Meteorolites or Acrolites, considered Geographically, Statistically, and Cosmically.

1871.  Fraser, Life Berkeley, x. 395. All our sense-phenomena … are indeed cosmically associated.