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 Grace Wharton
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 John Lyde Wilson
As some help, he suggested the names of a couple of his cronies, both well past their grand climacteric.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
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
Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
