climatology (klimatoloji)

[= F. clima to logie, etc., Demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen. Shak., Hamlet, i. 1. climax (kli'maks), n. [= F. climax , etc., climax , a climax, κλίμαξ , a ladder, a 1046 staircase, a climax in rhetoric, Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 173. 2. In logic: (a) A sorites, or chain of reasoning. (b) The sophism called sorites (which see).-3. The highest point of intensity, development, etc.; the culmination; acme: as, he was then at the climax of his fortunes. We must look higher for the climax of earthly good. Is. Taylor. "From the court," She answer'd, "then ye know the Prince?" and he: "The climax of his age!" Tennyson, Prince , ii. Sometimes the climax of a character is reached only in old age, when storms have wreaked their fury for a lifeC. J. Bellamy, Breton Mills, p. 43. time on a soul. To cap the climax. See cap1. climax (kli' maks), v. i. [ The excitement in his blood. climaxed suddenly in her presence. The Century , XXV. 111. climb (klim), v.; pret. and pp. climbed or clomb (the latter obsolete except in poetry), ppr. climbing. [Early mod. E. also clime, cly me; Chyld, clem thou not ouer hows ne walle For no frute, bryddes, ne balle. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 400. He up arose, as halfe in great disdaine, And clombe unto his steed. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 61. Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet. 1 Sam. xiv. 13. Zacchæus climbed up into a sycamore tree. Luke xix. 4. clinandrium