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Relating to a climacteric; critical.

See Climacteric. Evelyn.

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

Climatic. Dunglison.

Presiding over, or regulating, climates.

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.

Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

Climatic.

To acclimate or become acclimated.

A description of climates.

Of or pertaining to climatology.

One versed in, or who studies, climatology.

The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.

A climate. [Obs.] Shak.

rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes.

To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument. Error of collimation, the deviation of the line collimation of an astronomical instrument from the position it ought to have with…

A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.

To render smooth; to polish. [Obs.]

Same as Foumart.