climacteric

• If you will examine your heart, you will find that you join the man with the philosopher; and if you have that kind opinion of my sense as you pretend, I question not but you add to it complexion, air, and shape; but, dear Molly, a man in his grand climacteric is of no sex. —  Isaac Bickerstaff
• Our fathers, he said, had talked unscientifically about the "grand climacteric," which came in the early sixties, but there was such a thing as a climacteric which might come any time in middle life, when the physical powers adjusted themselves to the approach of age. —  SICK HEART RIVER
• Timidity, awe of authority, a need for selfeffacement so often get the upper hand after the climacteric - as Sylvia might have pointed out to him with woeful examples—but they had not triumphed over Mrs Crown. —  The Third Wexford Omnibus
• Gas was unknown; I groped about the streets of London in the all but utter darkness of a twinkling oil lamp, under the protection of watchmen in their grand climacteric, and exposed to every species of degradation and insult. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
• There is also a period called the "climacteric," which lasts for many years before and after a woman's last menstrual period. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase

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