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Etymology
From hyper- + cosmic.
Adjective
hypercosmic (not comparable)
- (rare) Extraordinarily cosmic; that which truly transcends the very cosmos; supercosmic.
- 4th c., Sallustius, On the Gods and the World, translated by Gilbert Murray in Five Stages of Greek Religion (1925), pages 3-4 (Chapter VI. On Gods Cosmic and Hypercosmic)
- Of the Gods some are of the world, cosmic, and some above the world, hypercosmic. By the cosmic I mean those who make the cosmos. Of the hypercosmic Gods some create essence, some mind, and some soul. Thus they have three orders; all of which may be found in treatises on the subject.
1884, Joseph William Reynolds, The Mystery of the Universe, Our Common Faith, Kegan Paul, Trench & Company, page 102:It has parts of quasi-infinite density, bound together by cohesion of hypercosmic power; a mathematical or differential surface, which, inwards, is the seat of attraction to the other parts of the atom; and, outwards, it has the power of unconquerable repulsion to all that is near; so that no two atoms can beforced into contact.
2006, George E. Karamanolis, Plato and Aristotle in agreement?, page 320:as far as we know, Porphyry did not consider the divine intellect to be a hypostasis clearly distinct from the Soul, but he often designated it ‘hypercosmic soul’.
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