Encapsulation in miniature of something larger

Usage examples of microcosm.

Furthermore, the interplay of similitudes was hitherto infinite: it was always possible to discover new ones, and the only limitation came from the fundamental ordering of things, from the finitude of a world held firmly between the macrocosm and the microcosm.

This is a part of the process by which the creation is projected: the microcosm and the macrocosm are always present.

The more this microcosm contains reflections or points of reference to the macrocosm - both the inward and the outward universes - then the higher is the potential consciousness, awareness or intelligence of the creature.

Robert Boyle, too, strongly advocated the biblical assertion that humans are made in the image of God, not nature, and this undermined the organic model of nature, which drew analogies between microcosm and macrocosm and between humans and the rest of creation.

This microcosm is the mind patterning around a soul which permits it greater or lesser awareness of the greater empyrean.

In cyberspace there are a wide variety of mental health resources, including support groups, informational websites, assessment and psychotherapeutic software, and comprehensive self-help programs - not to mention the potentially therapeutic nature of online relationships and communities as social microcosms.

Only in the jealous vocabularies of the Homebodies, so long tied to their hutches and routines that the scope of mind and emotion had narrowed to fit their microcosm.

And the configuration of that microcosm also determines just what the encumbered soul perceives of the universe.

How could she bear to see herself like that --to see in microcosm what this world would be reduced to in a few more years, when the off worlders abandoned it again?

In turn, I contained a microcosm of my own-a deration field easing gradually as I let her out into the groove.

At the end of the dynasty, the Einsteins and die Fermis, after hunting for the secret in the heart of the microcosm, stumble upon the wrong invention: instead of telluric energy—clean, natural, sapiential—they discover atomic energy—technological, unnatural, polluted.

For evil, like chaos, was one of the fundamental forces of Creation, manifest in both the macrocosm of the wide world and the microcosm of the individual soul.

Units known as Cryptologic Service Groups (CSGs) bring NSA in microcosm to the national security community and forces in the field.

But with a joke animal we can test our thesis in microcosm, harmlessly.

Then there's the problem of an evil stepmother and her son, a dragon in one of the attics, feral furniture, and the fact that the house appears to be the world in microcosm -- by which I mean, if the house is in good repair, then so is the greater world beyond its doors, but if the lamps aren't all lit, the clocks not all wound, it has dire consequences for both the house and our world.