Part 1699

<hw>Ca*tarrh"ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Catarrhal.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Catastaltic</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Cat`a*stal"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to check; <?/ down, wholy + <?/ to set.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Checking evacutions through astringent or styptic qualities.</def>

<h1>Catastasis</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Ca*tas"ta*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to set; <?/ down + <?/ to place.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>That part of a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>The state, or condition of anything; constitution; habit of body.</def>

<h1>Catasterism</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Ca*tas"ter*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to place among the stars.]</ety> <def>A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>catasterisms</b> of Eratosthenes. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Catastrophe</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Ca*tas"tro*phe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>catastropha</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to turn up and down, to overturn; <?/ down + <?/ to turn.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.</def>

<blockquote>The strange <b>catastrophe</b> of affairs now at London. <i>Bp. Buret.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The most horrible and portentous <b>catastrophe</b> that nature ever yet saw. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, <as>as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes</as>.</def>

<i>Whewell.</i>

<h1>Catastrophic</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Cat`a*stroph"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.</def>

<i>B. Powell.</i>

<h1>Catastrophism</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Ca*tas"tro*phism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opposed to the doctrine of <i>uniformism</i>.</def>

<h1>Catastrophist</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Ca*tas"tro*phist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>One who holds the theory or catastrophism.</def>

<h1>Catawba</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Ca*taw"ba</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A well known light red variety of American grape.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape.</def>

<h1>Catawbas</h1> <Xpage=225>

<hw>Ca*taw"bas</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt><def>; <i>sing</i>. <er>Catawba</er>. <fld>(Ethnol.)</fld> An appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.</def>