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English
Adjective
climateric (not comparable)
- (obsolete) climatic
1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery: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: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: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
Borrowed from French climatérique.
Adjective
climateric m or n (feminine singular climaterică, masculine plural climaterici, feminine and neuter plural climaterice)
- climacteric
Declension