[f. ACCLIMATE by form-assoc. with words like narrate, narration, in which -ate is a vbl. ending: in acclimate it is part of the stem.] = ACCLIMATATION or ACCLIMATIZATION; but see last quot.
1801. Crit. Rev., XXXII. 558. The education and the acclimation of fishes.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exped. (1856), iii. 26. [I] could temper down at pleasure the abruptness of my acclimation.
1859. Sat. Rev., 12 Feb., 183/2. With such animals as these [American deer] acclimation is comparatively easy.
1878. Bartley, trans. Topinard’s Anthrop., II. viii. 393. The words acclimation and acclimatization are not synonymous. The former is understood of the spontaneous and natural accommodation to new climatic conditions, the latter of the intervention of man in this accommodation.
