Definition of "climateric"

It was impossible but that the vast mass must have been subjected to climateric influences; ruptures must surely have taken place at some points.

1899, Mrs. Cashel Hoey, An Antarctic Mystery‎

That is, they were dispersed very widely, sent into the various and remote parts of the earth; and their nationality received its being from the latitudes to which the divinely appointed wave of dispersion bore them; and their subsequent racial character was to borrow its tone and color from climateric influences.

1883, George W. Williams, History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1‎

He whose laws are everywhere incessantly self executing needs not to select and group and reserve his friends or foes for any climateric catastrophe.

1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul‎