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单词 climature
释义

climaturen.

Brit. /ˈklʌɪmətʃə/, /ˈklʌɪmətʃʊə/, /ˈklʌɪmətjʊə/, U.S. /ˈklaɪmətʃər/, /ˈklaɪməˌtʃʊ(ə)r/
Forms:

α. 1600s– climature.

β. 1600s climater.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: climate n.1; Latin climat- , clima , -ure suffix1.
Etymology: < climate n.1 or its etymon classical Latin climat-, clima + -ure suffix1, perhaps after temperature n. Compare French climature (1829).
Now rare.
1. A region of the earth; = climate n.1 1b. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun]
endc893
earthOE
coastc1315
plagea1382
provincea1382
regiona1382
countrya1387
partya1387
climatea1398
partc1400
nookc1450
corner1535
subregion1559
parcel1582
quart1590
climature1604
latitudea1640
area1671
district1712
zone1829
natural region1888
sector1943
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 106 + 18 Euen the like precurse of feare euents..Haue heauen and earth together demonstrated Vnto our Climatures and countrymen.
1845 T. Cooper Purgatory of Suicides viii. 279 Brothers, full soon bliss shall pervade this climature!
2. The characteristic weather conditions of a country or region; = climate n.1 2a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > prevailing weather or climate
temperurea1387
heavena1398
temper1483
sunc1540
climate1548
sky1583
temperament1583
clime1597
meteorologicsc1600
climature1615
meteorology1684
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 97 The sultry southwinds, and blacke climater.
1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors v. 63 We meet with those Accidents under a general Climature of Seasons.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 12 We may fairly place West Devonshire ten days or a fortnight behind the Midland District, which lies more than two degrees of latitude..farther North. A proof that climate [i.e. latitude] and climature have not an immediate connection.
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 333 The climature of Northumberland affects the fleece very considerably.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 251 Even in..the length of Loch Tay..the difference of climature, with respect to moistness, is very great.
1872 Littell's Living Age 17 Feb. 391/2 The higher climature of the mid-Tertiary period is further corroborated by the testimony of the fossil plants now growing elsewhere than in America.
1964 New Castle (Pa.) News 2 Mar. 4/1 The decision to call up the wheat-cotton bill before the civil rights bill in the Senate was as much a matter of climature as of politics... Unless the bill was finished before the expected protracted civil rights wrangle, it would be too late to cover this year's wheat and cotton crops.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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