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English
Etymology
From climate + -ist.
Noun
climatist (plural climatists)
- (rare) A climatologist.
1844 July, “The Climate of the South of Devon, and its Influence upon Health, with short accounts of Exeter, Torquay, Babbicombe, Teignmouth, &c. By Thomas Shapter, M.D. London. 1842.”, in The Monthly Review, volume 2, number 3, page 320:In proof of which, let any man live on one side and then on the other side of a hill, or North and South—or even on the same side, so one part of that side be sheltered from the wind by trees, and the others open. A test like this is worth all the theories of all the climatists and meteorologists in the world.
- (historical) One who believes that certain diseases, especially yellow fever, are mainly caused by local atmospheric conditions.
- Coordinate term: contagionist
2003, Joanna Brooks, “Black Identity and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia”, in American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 156:Climatists, Benjamin Rush among them, attributed the disease not to the influx of tropical residents but to a season of unusually tropical weather in Philadelphia. […] Climatists and contagionists both viewed nativity or nationality as indices of susceptibility to the fever.