It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
Southey.
Grand or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life.
I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics.
Burke.
Clim`ac*ter"ic*al (?), a. & n. See Climacteric. Evelyn.
Cli"ma*tal (?), a. Climatic. Dunglison.
Cli`ma*tar"chic (?), a. [Climate + Gr. &?; to rule.] Presiding over, or regulating, climates.
Cli"mate (?), n. [F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. &?;, &?;, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. &?; to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime.] 1. (Anc. Geog.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.
Cli"mate, v. i. To dwell. [Poetic] Shak.
Cli*mat"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.
Cli*mat"ic*al (?), a. Climatic.
Cli"ma*tize (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Climatized (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Climatizing.] To acclimate or become acclimated.
Cli`ma*tog"ra*phy (?), n. [Climate + -graphy.] A description of climates.
Cli`ma*to*log"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to climatology.
Cli`ma*tol"o*gist (?), n. One versed in, or who studies, climatology.
Cli`ma*tol"o*gy (?), n. [Climate + -logy: cf. F. climatologie.] The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes. Brande & C.
Cli"ma*ture (?; 135), n. [Cf. F. climature.] A climate. [Obs.] Shak.
Cli"max (?), n. [L., from Gr. &?; ladder, staircase, fr. &?; to make to bend, to lean. See Ladder, Lean, v. i.] 1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent. Glanvill.
2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
"Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax.
J. D. Forbes.