climacteric
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /klʌɪmakˈtɛɹɪk/, /klʌɪˈmaktəɹɪk/
climacteric
- Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life. [from 17th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 596:
- Closely parallel to the belief in unlucky days was the notion of climacteric years, those periodic dates in a man's life which were potential turning-points in his health and fortune.
- 1971, Keith Thomas (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 596:
- Critical or crucial; decisive. [from 17th c.]
- (medicine) Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal. [from 18th c.]
- Climactic. [from 18th c.]
- Russian: критический
- Russian: климактерический
climacteric (plural climacterics)
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point. [from 17th c.]
- It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
- Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, p. 66-67.
- [H]e was in his grand climacterick, with a florid brow, and a step like youthful agility. Sigourney, Lydia.
, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France., p. 52. - 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.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year). [from 17th c.]
- (medicine) The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause. [from 18th c.]
- 1998, Smith, Roger N J, and Studd, John W. W., The Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy, p. 8:
- Once women have traversed the turmoil of the climacteric years and reached the hormonal steady-state of the post-menopause, there is almost certainly no increase in the incidence of depression.
- 1998, Smith, Roger N J, and Studd, John W. W., The Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy, p. 8:
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