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Catastrophe
Catastrophe Ca*tas"tro*phe, n. [L. catastropha, Gr. ?, fr. ?
to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + ? to turn.]
1. 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.
The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London.
--Bp. Burnet.
The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that
nature ever yet saw. --Woodward.
2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a
denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a
comedy.
3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the
surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of
some part of it, effected by internal causes. --Whewell.
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