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/kˈəlmɪnˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Culminate v. i. (past & past part. culminated; pres. part. culminating)

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead. "As when his beams at noon Culminate from the equator."

To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc. "The reptile race culminated in the secondary era." "The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating."

adjective

Culminate adj. Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; applied to the growth of corals.

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Etymology of 'Culminate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... death. Putting aside sport and its pleasures, which he had abandoned because of the suffering and extinction entailed upon the shot or hunted creatures, to him it seemed inexpressibly sad that even his honest farming operations, at least where the beasts were concerned, should always culminate in death. Why should the faithful horse be knocked on the head when it grew old, or the poor cow go to the butcher as a reward for its long ...

— Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales • Henry Rider Haggard

... hastening-to-be-rich people. Of course, the same causes must tend to produce the same effects everywhere, though different circumstances may partially modify the results; and in proportion as this vicious system has prevailed with us in England, its consequences must, at some time or other, culminate in sudden severe pressure upon the trading and manufacturing interests, and I suppose, of course, upon all classes of the industrial population of the country. The difficult details of finance, and their practical application to the currency question, have not often been understood, ...

— Records of Later Life • Frances Anne Kemble

... the astral, denote that your efforts and plans will culminate in worldly success and distinction. A spectre or picture of your astral self ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... parish, a sound of distant threatening thunder came toward him from the large farms, lying in the storm. He knew that that day their owners had become insolvent, that he himself and the savings-bank were going the same way: and his whole long work would culminate in ...

— Stories by Foreign Authors • Various

... looking into the military, monastic, and baronial architecture of the mediaeval period on the Continent, and goes next year to Japan to begin the exhaustive researches which are to culminate in his next book, the "Lives of ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 • Various

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