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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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"Culminate" Quotes from Famous Books

... God, not of disorder, but of order. Let us take home, I say, the awful belief, that every wrong act of ours does of itself sow the seeds of its own punishment; and that those seeds will assuredly bear fruit, now, here in this life. Let us believe that God's judgments, though they will culminate, no doubt, hereafter in one great day, and "one divine far-off event, to which the whole creation moves," are yet about our path and about our bed, now, here, in this life. Let us believe, that if we are to prepare to meet our God, we must do it now, here in this life, yea ...

— Town and Country Sermons • Charles Kingsley

... upon the killing of Richardson did not culminate in the formation of a Vigilance Committee, similar to that of 1851, but it influenced the public mind in that direction. It was the piling of the combustibles which required only the next spark from the electric battery to fire the heap to consuming flames. There ...

— The Vigilance Committee of '56 • James O'Meara

... is always a little behind the sun in our climate, just as the tide is always a little behind the moon. According to the calendar, the summer ought to culminate about the 21st of June, but in reality it is some weeks later; June is a maiden month all through. It is not high noon in nature till about the first or second week in July. When the chestnut-tree blooms, the meridian of the year is reached. ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... sobriquet invented by the citizens to symbolize it as the point on which the fortunes of the colony would culminate and revolve. They also invented several other original terms—a phraseology christened by the Melbourne press as the ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... we are on the eve of removal to London where we are taking rooms once occupied by the family of David Christie Murray. We go to-morrow, and begin a new chapter in this most disastrous of years. So many things seem to culminate toward the close of the century—good fortune for some, evil fortune for others; hopes dashed at the seeming moment of realization, as if all the forces in nature were aiding to make an end of the century's efforts in any way ...

— Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June" • Various

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