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.)
Defn: 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.
CATASTROPHIC
Cat`a*stroph"ic, a.
Defn: Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell.
CATASTROPHISM
Ca*tas"tro*phism, n. (Geol.)
Defn: 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.
CATASTROPHIST
Ca*tas"tro*phist, n. (Geol.)
Defn: One who holds the theory or catastrophism.
CATAWBA
Ca*taw"ba, n.