1857. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., xviii. (1876), 337. It is never cataclysmal save over the most partial and isolated tracts.
1862. D. Wilson, Preh. Man (1864), I. iii. 50. I could detect nothing … indicating cataclysmal action.
fig. 1882. Q. Rev., July, 275. We now know what it is the Radical party are waiting for…. It is a cataclysmal catastrophe.
1885. Spectator, 19 Dec., 1693. [He] is too old to stand the shock of such a cataclysmal enlightenment.
