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Acme   /ˈækmi/   Listen
noun
acme  n.  
1.
The top or highest point; the culmination. "The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry." "The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy."
2.
(Med.) The crisis or height of a disease.
3.
Mature age; full bloom of life.





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"Acme" Quotes from Famous Books



... acme of audacity—yes. The telegram has just come. 'Must see you tonight on important business affecting the past. Shall hope to be with ...
— The Crimson Blind • Fred M. White
... being in a beautiful and fertile country, where abound rich fields of grain and running streams of pure water, denotes the very acme of good times is at hand. Wealth will pile in upon you, and you will be able to reign in state in any country. If the country be dry and bare, you will see and hear of troublous times. Famine and sickness will be ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller
... to which they had been accustomed had been far from the Shakespearian standard, was wholly absorbed in the development of the tragedy. It was a complete revelation to them, and they were carried out of themselves, and found in the sympathy awakened by this heart-crushing spectacle of the acme of human woe an unconscious solace for their ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss
... themselves were of a sort that I am afraid boys would smile at nowadays. When you went to get a pair of skates forty or fifty years ago, you did not make your choice between a Barney & Berry and an Acme, which fastened on with the turn of a screw or the twist of a clamp. You found an assortment of big and little sizes of solid wood bodies with guttered blades turning up in front with a sharp point, or perhaps curling over above the toe. In this case they sometimes ended in an ...
— Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells • William Dean Howells
... keep his eyes upon the floor as he said this, and after he had finished, so as not to spy upon her confusion. She stood silent for a moment, then walked suddenly away, and falling on her uncle's chair, fairly burst out sobbing. Denis was in the acme of embarrassment. He looked round, as if to seek for inspiration, and seeing a stool, plumped down upon it for something to do. There he sat, playing with the guard of his rapier, and wishing himself dead a thousand times over, and buried in the nastiest kitchen-heap in France. His eyes ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson


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