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cliˈmactically, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2. But the 17th c. instance appears to have been f. Gr. κλίµατ- slope, climate, taken as = κλῖµαξ ladder, climax.]
By way of climax; in relation to climax.
1622T. Stoughton Chr. Sacrif. xvi. 221 He speaketh climatically, that is, riseth by degrees higher and higher; from a reed shaken with the wind, to a man clothed in soft raiment. 1880M. Evans tr. Meyer's Ephes. iii. 18 The oxymoron γνῶναι τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν τῆς γνώσεως..climactically parallel to the just expressed καταλαβέσθαι..ὕψος. |