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- noun Plural form of
climacteric .
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Examples
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Astrologers have employed all the rules of their art to show that the years of man's age, called climacterics, are dangerous, even threatening death.
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The first climacteric is in the seventh year of life, the rest are multiples of the first -- as 21, 49, 56, 63, and 84, which two last are called the grand climacterics.
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Clearly we are approaching one of the grand climacterics of history.
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We are, on both sides, inclined to agree that we are approaching, if we have not actually entered on, one of the climacterics of our national life.
Liberalism and the Social Problem Winston S. Churchill 1919
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I neither come to discover secret things nor hidden treasures; but to discourse with you concerning these portentous and monster-breeding times; for it is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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He might one day write a similarly wonderful piece of music theatre with such songs acting as emotional climacterics within the drama.
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He might one day write a similarly wonderful piece of music theatre with such songs acting as emotional climacterics within the drama.
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But they whose climacterics we observe, employed their observation upon their critical days, the working of thy promise of a Messias upon them.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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