Meaning of climatist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A climatologist.
   rare
2. One who believes that certain diseases, especially yellow fever, are mainly caused by local atmospheric conditions.
   historical

Examples

“In proof of which, let⟳ any man live⟳ on one side and then on the other side of a hill, or North and South—or even on the same side, so one part of that side be sheltered from the wind by trees, and the others open⟳. A test⟳ like⟳ this is worth all the theories of all the climatists and meteorologists in the world.”

“Climatists, Benjamin Rush⟳ among them, attributed the disease not to the influx of tropical residents but to a season of unusually tropical weather in Philadelphia. […] Climatists and contagionists both viewed nativity or nationality as indices of susceptibility to the fever.”

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