climateric
English
Adjective
climateric (not comparable)
- (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.