a. [f. as prec. + -AL, after political.] Relating to all states and polities; belonging to universal polity.
1598. [see COSMOPOLITE].
1798. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XXVI. 561. It discusses the possibility of a cosmopolitical federation, or a concert between all the nations of the earth to arrange their disputes by means of umpires, instead of armies.
1860. Masson, in Macm. Mag., I. 173/2. Exhibiting … a nobler a more commanding cosmopolitical spirit.
1887. Lowell, Democracy, etc. 196. Kant says somewhere that, as the records of human transactions accumulate, the memory of man will have room only for those of supreme cosmopolitical importance.
