Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COS-MOL'O-GY, a. [s as z. Gr. κοσμολογια; κοσμος, the universe, and λογος, discourse.]

The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature. – Encyc. Enfield.