Mī'cro-cōsm, n.
n. [Fr. microcosme, It. & Sp. microcosmo, Lat. microcosmus, Gr. μικρόκοσμος, from μικρός, little, small, and κόσμος, the world.]
Sense 1. A little world; a miniature society or institution. “More judicious politicians of this micro-cosm.” W. Scott.
Sense 2. Hence, man, supposed to be an epitome of the universe or great world.
Since God collected and resumed in man The firmaments, the strata, and the lights, Fish, fowl, and beast, and insect—all their trains Of various life caught back upon his arm, Reorganized and constituted Man, The microcosm, the adding up of works. E. B. Browning.