climatericとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

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.