grand climacteric
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Bernard was now sixty-two years of age, within a year of his grand climacteric.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 453 Volume 18, New Series, September 4, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Fortunately the poet was a tough old monk of Exeter; since such a present to a nobleman, now in his grand climacteric, would hardly have been worth the carriage.
From Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers by Various
The year has reached its grand climacteric, and is fast falling “into the sere, the yellow leaf.”
From Mirror of the Months by Patmore, Peter George
Stap my vitals, but the author grows scurrilous in his grand climacteric!
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
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
