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cosmus [CL < κόσμος] , world, universe. b this (transitory) world. nigerrima / imi cosmi contagia Bonif. Carm. III p.18 l. 8; non gravabitur iterum ullo taedio †quam abisset [v. l. quamvis habitasset] solus in extremis finibus ~i Nen. HB 218; 9‥ chomos, middangeard ‥, 10‥ mundus vel ~us, middaneard WW; 935 (12c) quamvis universam ~i seriem quisque ‥ perlustret CS 707; 949 ~i sother Ib. 877; 960 (14c) ipse jam ~us sua ipsa senectute deprimitur Ib. 1053; 961 almus totius ~i fabricae conditor Ib. 1066; pene universum ‥ ~um ad Christianae fidei religionem ‥ converterunt Lantfr. Mir. et Transl. Swith. B 2 (cf. id. Mir. et Transl. Swith. A 333B: per ~i Salvatoris pietatem); glorificantes ~i Redemptorem Lib. Eli. I 49; the werlde, mundus, emisperium, orbis ‥ seculum, ~us CathA.  b non quod luxu labilia / cosmi quaerunt quisquilia (Æthelwald) Carm. Aldh. 2. 102.

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