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Climacteric

noun

A period in a man's life corresponding to menopause.

The time in a woman's life in which the menstrual cycle ends. Synonyms: change of life, menopause.

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"Climacteric" Quotes from Famous Books

... other. I have seen a youthful beau kiss, with perfect devotion, a ball of cotton dropped from the hand of a lady who was knitting stockings for her grand-children. Another pays his court to a belle in her climacteric, by bringing gimblettes [A sort of gingerbread.] to the favourite lap-dog, or attending, with great assiduity, the egresses and regresses of her angola, who paces slowly out of the room ten times in an hour, while ...

— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady

... future life because of Christ's return from the grave? Is his established resurrection at Jerusalem the climacteric proof for immortality? The problem is inescapable. Every man is himself a judge; before every man the accumulated evidence passes; for every man it is doomsday when he stands at the ...

— An Easter Disciple • Arthur Benton Sanford

... some of the back benches, where they had already taken up their positions for the evening, were divers unmarried ladies past their grand climacteric, who, not dancing because there were no partners for them, and not playing cards lest they should be set down as irretrievably single, were in the favourable situation of being able to abuse everybody ...

— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

Words linked to "Climacteric" : menopause, change of life, biological time, middle age