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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. [1913 Webster] The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. --Woodward. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] |
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