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CATACLYSM (Gr. Karcudsuvµos, a deluge)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 490 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CATACLYSM (Gr. Karcudsuvµos, a deluge)

CATACLYSM (Gr. Karcudsuvµos, a See also:
DELUGE, THE (through the Fr. from Lat. diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away)
deluge) , a See also:

GREAT

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flood or See also:

DELUGE, THE (through the Fr. from Lat. diluvium, flood, diluere, to wash away)

deluge (q.v.) . The See also:

TERM

term is used in See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology to denote an overwhelming See also:

CATASTROPHE (Gr. Karaurpoch, from KaraQrp4ecv, to over-turn)

catastrophe which has produced sudden changes in the See also:

earth's See also:

SURFACE

surface; and also, figuratively, of any great and violent See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change which sweeps away the existing social or See also:

POLITICAL

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