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apocalyptic (adj.)
1660s, "pertaining to the 'Revelation of St. John' in the New Testament," from Greek
apokalyptikos
, from
apokalyptein
(see
apocalypse
). Meaning "pertaining to the imminent end of the world" evolved by 1880s.
