grand climacteric
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I am now in my grand climacteric, and shall not complete it.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Wharton, Grace
Mrs Beazeley, the housekeeper, was a good-tempered woman, long passed the grand climacteric, and strongly attached to Forster, with whom she had resided many years.
From Newton Forster The Merchant Service by Marryat, Frederick
This happened in the depth of winter, when I was in my grand climacteric, and had just recovered of a dangerous disease.
From A journey from this world to the next — Volume 2 by Fielding, Henry
Climacter′ical.—The grand climacteric, the sixty-third year, supposed to be a critical period for men.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
It was a grand climacteric in the life of humanity--an epoch in the moral and religious history of the world.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)
