climen.
/klʌɪm/, U.S. /klaɪm/ Now chiefly poetic.† 1. = climate n.1 1. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun]
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climatea1393
clime1553
region1556
zone1559
belt1796
subzone1851
dead zone1926
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Mvv A clyme is a porcion of the worlde betwene South and North, wherein is variacion in length of the daye, the space of halfe an houre.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. ii. xvi. f. 192v Euery Clime consisteth of 2. Parallels.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xiv. 225 Our temperate Clime here..beginnes at the 40, and endeth at the 50 degree of latitude.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 Thro' twelve bright Signs Apollo guides The Year, and Earth in sev'ral Climes divides. View more context for this quotation
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a. More vaguely: A tract or region of the earth; now often considered in relation to its distinctive climate. (Now chiefly poetic or in elevated prose.)
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > in relation to climate or weather conditions
clime1542
climate1578
zone1599
homoclime1916
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > prevailing weather or climate > region with reference to
clime1542
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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 216v A clime is a region or coste of a countree.
1595 T. Edwardes in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 18 Amid'st the Center of this clime.
1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 36 Till both removed to a western clime.
1719 E. Young Busiris i. 3 Ambassadors from various Climes arrive.
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck iii. 46 Fam'd from clime to clime.
1789 W. Blake Divine Image in Songs of Innocence Every man of every clime.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 43 To attract the curious and enlightened of every clime.
b. figurative. Region, realm.
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1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 708 To walk with God High in Salvation and the Climes of bliss. View more context for this quotation
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 9 This inclement Clime of human life.
3. = climate n.1 2. Also figurative = Atmosphere. poetic.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > prevailing weather or climate
temperurea1387
heavena1398
temper1483
sunc1540
climate1548
sky1583
temperament1583
clime1597
meteorologicsc1600
climature1615
meteorology1684
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) II. xv. xi. 730 Alania..is vndir a colde clima.]
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 18 Thys moyst and foggie Clime.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 114 Rich is thy Soil, and merciful thy Clime.
a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 23 Ill can I bear the various clime of love!
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 83 Subject to a clime not dissimilar to the native country of those quadrupeds.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 182 Where a sweet clime was breathed from a land Of fragrance..and flowers.
1865 P. S. Worsley Poems & Transl. 10 The fiery clime Breathed by that fierce quaternion.
Derivatives
ˈclimed adj. allotted to a (particular) clime.Apparently an isolated use.
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1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 59 The climed hues of earth's zone-sever'd family.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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