grand climacteric
Americannoun
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Physicians speak in a physiological sense of the grand climacteric of a man's age.
From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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
I am now in my grand climacteric, and shall not complete it.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Wharton, Grace
And died he before his grand climacteric in a dimmish sort of a middle-sized tenement in Stratford-on-Avon, of a surfeit from an overdose of home-brewed humming ale?
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir
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