adv. [f. prec. + -LY2. But the 17th-c. instance appears to have been f. Gr. κλίματ- slope, climate, taken as = κλῖμαξ ladder, climax.] By way of climax; in relation to climax.
1622. T. Stoughton, Chr. Sacrif., xvi. 221. He speaketh climatically, that is, riseth by degrees higher and higher; from a reed shaken with the wind, to a man clothed in soft raiment.
1880. M. Evans, trans. Meyer’s Ephes., iii. 18. The oxymoron γνῶναι τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν τῆς γνώσεως … climactically parallel to the just expressed καταλαβέσθαι … ὔψος.
