Obs. [a. F. climacterie (in Cotgr.), f. Gr. L. climactēr + abstr. suffix -ie, -Y.]
1. = CLIMACTERIC B. 1.
1658. Ussher, Ann., VII. 802. Past the sixty third year, the common Climactery of all old men.
2. Progress by successive steps; a step of a climax.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 92. Could he have foreseen where all the climacteries and motions of his advance should have terminated.
a. 1734. North, Exam. (1740), 478. He is an Artist at Disposition and Climactery for the setting off his Positions. Ibid., 133. I … come not to the Point, till his Climacteries of Approach are all considered.
