Obs. rare. [ad. mod.L. typocosmia, a. Gr. type *τυποκοσμία, f. τύπος type + κοσμεῖν to set in order.] A method or system, intended as an aid to learning, in which words or terms are grouped according to types or classes.
Blount’s definition appears to be erroneous.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. xvii. § 14. Such was the trauaile of Raymundus Lullius, in making that Art, which beares his name; not vnlike to some Bookes of Typocosmy, which haue beene made since, beeing nothing but a Masse of words of all Arts.
1605. Camden, Rem. (1636), 112. To reduce surnames to a Methode, is matter for a Ramist, who should haply finde it to be a Typocosmie.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tipocosmy or Typocosmy (typocosmia), a type or figure of the world.
