climateric

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English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

climateric (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) climatic
    • 1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery[1]:
      It was impossible but that the vast mass must have been subjected to climateric influences; ruptures must surely have taken place at some points.
    • 1883, George W. Williams, History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1[2]:
      That is, they were dispersed very widely, sent into the various and remote parts of the earth; and their nationality received its being from the latitudes to which the divinely appointed wave of dispersion bore them; and their subsequent racial character was to borrow its tone and color from climateric influences.
    • 1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul[3]:
      He whose laws are everywhere incessantly self executing needs not to select and group and reserve his friends or foes for any climateric catastrophe.

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French climatérique.

Adjective[edit]

climateric m or n (feminine singular climaterică, masculine plural climaterici, feminine and neuter plural climaterice)

  1. climacteric

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