climatorialadj.
/ˌklʌɪməˈtɔːrɪəl/, U.S. /ˌklaɪməˈtɔriəl/ Now historical.
= climatic adj.2; spec. (Medicine) of or relating to as a cause of disease.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > of or relating to climate
climatical1641
climatic1747
climatorial1818
climatological1828
climatal1832
climacteric1837
climatologic1845
1818 J. Johnson Influence of Atmosphere 14 This class [sc. of pulmonic complaints] may be termed the national or climatorial disease.
1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. i. 116 A place..situated in unfavourable climatorial circumstances.
1863 E. J. Tilt Handbk. of Uterine Therapeutics xiii. 284 Constitutional and local measures..will only be partially successful so long as the patient remains subject to these climatorial conditions.
1882 Trans. Epidemiol. Soc. 1875–81 4 336 Similar and equally great variations are observable in cases of endemic and climatorial, but otherwise non-specific, fever in India.
1974 R. L. Blanco Wellington's Surgeon Gen. 170 The writers, accustomed to describe disease in terms of miasmatic and climatorial pathology, questioned some traditional assumptions.
1977 Solar Energy 19 308 (table) Annual Climatorial Report, State of Kuwait.
1997 J. M. Naish in S. Haycox et al. Enlightenm. & Explor. in N. Pacific, 1741–1805 79 In the eighteenth century the miasmatic or climatorial theory of infectious diseases held sway.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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