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climacterical, a. and n.|klaɪmækˈtɛrɪkəl|
Forms: α. 6–7 cly-, cli-, -all, (7 climactrical), 7– climacterical. β. 6–7 climatericall, 7 clymat-, climaterical.
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
A. adj.
1. = climacteric A. 1; esp. applied to the ‘grand climacteric’ or 63rd year of life; see prec. B. 1.
1590L. Lloyd Dial Daies Oct. 25 Georgius Castriotus..died upon this day in his climatericall year 63. 1602W. Vaughan Nat. Direct. 47 These they name climacterical or stayrie yeares, for then they saw great alterations. Now, a climactericall yeare is euery seauenth yeare. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. ii. (1623) E ij, This Climactericall number of nine times seven. 1611Cotgr., L'an climactère, the climatericall yeare. 1693W. Freke Sel. Ess. iv. 23 Who but one that has more Fancy than Judgment would mind the Climacterical Years? 1839De Quincey Wordsworth in Tait's Mag. 10/1 An elderly man, who confessed to having passed the grand climacterical year (9 multiplied into 7) of 63.
b. Critical, dangerous; = climacteric A. 1 b.
1623Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. 116 They are commonly a kind of Climactericall and dangerous prattlers. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xi. 95 The climactericall yeare of many churches..may seem to happen in our dayes; so old that their ruine is threatned if not speedily repaired. 1649Selden Laws Eng. ii. i. (1739) 8 This was one of England's Climacterical Years, under a Disease so desperate, that no hope was left but by a desperate Cure. 1832Edin. Rev. LV. 534 The latter half of the thirteenth century was one of the climacterical periods of the history of Rome.
†2. Relating to climax; = climactic. Obs.
a1638Mede Wks. v. 918 The Seventh is the Climacterical Seal, sounding the warlike alarm to the Empire's Ruine by Seven successive and languishing blows. 1653A. Wilson Jas. I, 103 Like Climatericall Diseases, take rest, and after some intermission break out again.
B. n.
†1. = climacteric B. i. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Climacterie de 63 ans, the Clymatericall, or dangerous yeare of 63, at which age diuers worthie men haue died. 1627Hakewill Apol. iii. ii. §1 The common clymactericall of al old men. 1650Fuller Pisgah iii. vi. 333 Now past the fifth climactericall of his disease. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iii. ii. xv. (1852) 430 He was come to that which we call, ‘the grand climacterical’.
†2. transf. = climacteric B. 2. Obs.
1639Fuller Holy War iii. iv. (1840) 121 War in the Low Countries hath already outlived the grand climacterical of three score and ten years. 1655― Ch. Hist. vi. vii, Many Mitred Abbeys have survived the dangerous Climactericall of the third Generation.
Hence climacˈterically adv.
1672Sir T. Browne Lett. Friend §28 (1881) 146 Climacterically old. |