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/ˈkætəɹækts/ · noun
(biblical, obsolete) The floodgates of heaven, regarded as holding back the rain..
No ſooner hee [Noah] vvith them of Man and Beaſt / Select for life ſhall in the Ark be lodg'd, / And ſhelterd round, but all the Cataracts / Of Heav'n ſet open on the Earth ſhall povvre / Raine day and night, […]
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Cataracts means (biblical, obsolete) The floodgates of heaven, regarded as holding back the rain..
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No ſooner hee [Noah] vvith them of Man and Beaſt / Select for life ſhall in the Ark be lodg'd, / And ſhelterd round, but all the Cataracts / Of Heav'n ſet open on the Earth ſhall povvre / Raine day and night, […]
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