grand climacteric
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I groped about the streets of London in all but utter darkness of a twinkling oil lamp, under the protection of watchmen in their grand climacteric, and exposed to every species of degradation and insult.
From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham
Emerson wrote occasionally in verse from his school-days until he had reached the age which used to be known as the grand climacteric, sixty-three....
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
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)
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
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
