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▪ I. clime Now chiefly poet.|klaɪm|
Also 6–7 clyme.
[ad. L. clima, a. Gr. κλίµα: see climate.]
†1. = climate 1. Obs.
1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 42 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. 1594Blundevil Exerc. iii. ii. xvi. (ed. 7) 406 Every Clime consisteth of two Parallels. 1635N. Carpenter Geog. Del. ii. xiv. 225 Our temperate Clime here..beginnes at the 40 and endeth at the 50 degree of latitude. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 321 Thro' twelve bright Signs Apollo guides The Year, and Earth in sev'ral Climes divides.
2. More vaguely: A tract or region of the earth; now often considered in relation to its distinctive climate. (Now chiefly poet. or in elevated prose.)
1542Udall tr. Erasm. Apophth. 216 b, A clime is a region or coste of a countree. 1595T. Edwardes in Shaks. Cent. Praise 18 Amid'st the Center of this clime. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Ch. Militant 36 Till both removed to a western clime. 1719Young Busiris i. i, Embassadors from various climes arrive. 1762Falconer Shipwr. iii. 185 Fam'd from clime to clime. 1783–94Blake Songs Innoc., Div. Image 13 Every man of every clime. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 43 To attract the curious and enlightened of every clime.
b. fig. Region, realm.
1667Milton P.L. xi. 708 To walk with God High in Salvation and the Climes of bliss. 1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 80 This inclement clime of human life.
3. = climate 3. Also fig. = Atmosphere. poet.
1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. v. 33 This moist and foggie clime. 1727Thomson Summer 1445 Rich is thy soil, and merciful thy clime. a1763Shenstone Poems Wks. (1764) I. 23 Ill can I bear the various clime of love! 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 83 Subject to a clime not dissimilar to the native country of those quadrupeds. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 263 Where a sweet clime was breathed from a land Of fragrance..and flowers. 1865Worsley Poems & Transl. 10 The fiery clime Breathed by that fierce quaternion.
Hence ˈclimed a. nonce-wd., allotted to a (particular) clime.
1838S. Bellamy Betrayal 59 The climed hues of earth's zone-sever'd family.
▪ II. clime, climer etc.,
obs. ff. climb, etc. |