clime

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When that has been done, the loss to English science, by Priestley's departure to another clime will be apparent.

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  1. noun Climate: in search of warmer climes.

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  • The wine had clearly been spoiled by not keeping it refrigerated in this tropical clime, and it was quite undrinkable. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Our commerce spreads over every sea and visits every clime, and our ministers and consuls are appointed to protect the interests of that commerce as well as to guard the peace of the country and maintain the honor of its flag. —  A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 1: Presidents Taylor and Fillmore
  • On the other side, a race of merchants Semitic in blood, a city whose citizens had long since ceased to go to war, preferring that their gold should fight for them by the hands of mercenaries of every race and clime--hirelings whose ungoverned valour had proved almost as deadly to their employers and generals as to their enemies. —  Roman History, Books I-III
  • Am I not right Quite right If then, in the countless ages of the past, or at the present hour in some foreign clime which is far away and beyond our ken, the perfected philosopher is or has been or hereafter shall be compelled by a superior power to have the charge of the State, we are ready to assert to the death, that this our constitution has been, and is--yea, and will be whenever the Muse of Philosophy is queen. —  The Republic
  • It provides a great Spring micro-clime, cooling and irrigating whatever's lucky enough to drop a seed into it. —  Little Bang Theory
 

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  1. Middle English, region of the earth, from Late Latin clima, from Greek klima; see climate.

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  1. from Latin clima, a clime, region: see climate.
 

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