Pertaining or relating to cosmology.from the changes in the world, used by Aristotle and Martineau;from the dependency of everything in the world, used by J. Caird, Martineau, and Stirling;the contingencies of the world, used by Aquinas, Leibnitz, Clarke;from the finitude of things in the world, used by Clarke;from the temporal character of things in the world;from the relativities of the world, used by Green and Illingworth;from the phenomenal character of the world;from the potential character of the world, used by Aristotle.