grand climacteric

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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

This year I am in my grand climacteric, and the state of my health has been a good deal worse than usual.

From Life of Adam Smith by Rae, John

This amiable couple seemed to border hard on their grand climacteric; nor indeed were they shy of owning enough to fix their ages within a year or two of that time.

From Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 by Fielding, Henry

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)

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