a. [f. as prec. + -AL.] Of or relating to cosmography.
1559. W. Cunningham (title), The Cosmographical Glasse, conteinying the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Geographie, Hydrographie, or Nauigation.
1632. Heywood, 1st Part Iron Age, V. Wks. 1874, III. 340. Tis a description Cosmographicall of all the Earth, the Ayre, the Sea and Heauen.
1635. N. Carpenter, Geog. Del., I. xi. 241. To this rule … are squared all Cosmographicall Tables.
1838. Prescott, Ferd. & Is. (1846), II. xvi. 107. Independently of the cosmographical knowledge it implies.
1861. Wright, Ess. Archæol., II. xiii. 15. This large map is founded on the popular cosmographical treatises of the time.
Hence Cosmographically adv.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. ii. (ed. 4), 68. Upon the … spherical magnet Cosmographically [ed. 1646 geographically] set out with circles of the Globe.
