a. and sb. rare. [f. COSMOPOLITE + -IC, after politic.]
A. adj. = COSMOPOLITAN.
1824. De Quincey, Wks. (1863), XII. 149. The formation of a great primary state-body, or cosmopolitic Areopagus.
1846. Blackw. Mag., LX. 481. Why to the Hotel de l’Europe?… I hate these cosmopolitic terms.
B. sb. (pl.) World-politics.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., II. xv. 202. The transcendental cosmopolitics of [Keats’s] Hyperion.
