grand climacteric

The year has reached its grand climacteric, and is fast falling into the sere, the yellow leaf.

Bernard was now sixty-two years of age, within a year of his grand climacteric.

He is now three and thirty, which is the grand climacteric of a young drunkard.

My son has such confidence in him that he seemed quite relieved when I had passed my grand climacteric and could get on his list.

Sir J. Barrington says, that, during his grand climacteric, two hundred and twenty-seven duels were fought.