Found 1 items, similar to Great climacteric.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Great climacteric climb-down \climb-down\ n. 1. a retraction of a previously held position. Syn: withdrawal, backdown. [WordNet 1.5] Grand climacteric or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]