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What is "cosmogeny"

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cosmogeny

n. (context dated English) cosmogony

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cosmogeny

n. the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe [syn: cosmology, cosmogony]

Usage examples of "cosmogeny".

Ontogeny recapitulates cosmogeny -- what is it but to say that proctoscopy repeats hagiography?

This was the basis of Spielman's Law -- ontogeny repeats cosmogeny -- and there was much more to it and to the science of cyclology whereof it was first principle.