Mi"cro*cosm (?), n. [F. microcosme, L. microcosmus, fr. Gr. small + the world.]

A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.

Shak.

 

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