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cataclysmal, a.|kætəˈklɪzməl|
[f. prec. + -al1: cf. abysmal.]
= cataclysmic.
1857Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. xviii. (1876) 337 It is never cataclysmal save over the most partial and isolated tracts. 1862D. Wilson Preh. Man (1864) I. iii. 50, I could detect nothing..indicating cataclysmal action.
fig.1882Q. Rev. July 275 We now know what it is the Radical party are waiting for..It is a cataclysmal catastrophe. 1885Spectator 19 Dec. 1693 [He] is too old to stand the shock of such a cataclysmal enlightenment. |