clim

a. [ L. climactericus, Gr. &unr_;. See Climacter. ] Relating to a climacteric; critical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any critical period. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. See Climacteric. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called “ascending rhythm”). S. R. Driver. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Climatic. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Climate + Gr. &unr_; to rule. ] Presiding over, or regulating, climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dwell. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. &unr_; to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime. ] 1. (Anc. Geog.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life. [ 1913 Webster ]