Word Meanings - CATASTROPHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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 uniformism.

• Causator
  One who causes.
• Caustically
  In a caustic manner.
• Crustalogist
  One versed in crustalogy.
• Earthbred
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• Earthquake
  A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earth
• Opposed
  of Oppose
• Causticily
  The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash.
• Crustalogy
  Crustaceology.
• Earthdin
  An earthquake.
• Earthquave
  An earthquake.
• Opposing
  of Oppose
• Suddenty
  Suddenness; a sudden.
• Causticness
  The quality of being caustic; causticity.
• Crustated
  Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.
• Earthdrake
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
• Earth shine
  See Earth light, under Earth.

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