Crossword clues for culminate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Culminate \Cul"mi*nate\ (k[u^]l"m[i^]*n[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Culminated (-n[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Culminating (-n[=a]`t[i^]ng.] [L. cuimen top or ridge. See Column.]
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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.
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To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
The reptile race culminated in the secondary era.
--Dana.The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating.
--Motley.
Culminate \Cul"mi*nate\ (k[u^]l"m[i^]*n[asl]t), a.
Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; --
applied to the growth of corals.
--Dana.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Late Latin culminatus past participle of culminare "to top, to crown," from Latin culmen (genitive culminis) "top, peak, summit, roof, gable," also used figuratively, contraction of columen (see column). Related: Culminated; culminating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive astronomy English) Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude. 2 (context intransitive English) To reach the (physical) summit, highest point, peak etc. 3 (context intransitive English) To reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion). 4 (context transitive English) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
WordNet
v. end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" [syn: climax]
bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism"
reach the highest or most decisive point
of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian
rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest"
Usage examples of "culminate".
Opposition to his tyranny culminated in 1842 by his dismission from the directorship, Meyerbeer being his successor.
Culminating in a trial scene that only John Mortimer could write, Dunster is a contemporary tale of friendship, love, honour and betrayal.
All this power, delegated to the thousands of millions of the Eich of this planet, culminates in and is wielded by the nine of us, who comprise Boskone.
Very large preparations should be made at the embarkation ports, and the assembly of the greatest amount of barges and invasion craft should be made, culminating in July and August.
The right arm healed, but the left showed erysipelatous inflammation, culminating in edema, which affected the glottis to such an extent that tracheotomy was performed to save her life.
And it finally culminated in the following frightful picture which still lowers and blazes in the imagination of ecclesiastical Christendom as a veritable revelation of what is to take place at the end of the world: While the stars are falling, the firmament dissolving, the dead swarming from their graves, and the nations assembling, Christ will come in the clouds of heaven with a host of angels and sit in judgment on collected mankind.
On that happy occasion of the beginning of growth that would culminate six months later with Samhain, the end of harvest, Partha mac Othna shared words, and kisses, and much more with Aine ingin Fol, merchant of Ailenn, and they snuggled and murmured their love.
The reporter had a vital reason for seeing her immediately, a vital reason for all concerned, above all in this moment when the Nihilists were culminating their plans, a vital reason for her and for him, equally menaced with death, to talk with her and to renew the propositions he had made a few minutes before the poisoning and which she had not wished to hear him talk about, in fearful pity for him or in defiance of him.
A storm of sensations drew her into its vortex, everything centering lower and lower, the fusion culminating in a glorious explosion that sent her soaring, for a few shattering seconds trans ported to a purely physical plateau where all was sensation.
Mourningwas behind me in the autumn of 2003, and I was beginning the mental triage that would eventually culminate in my eighth book.
Saloon occupies a position about midway the alley, and at its doors, the acme, the culminating point, the superlative degree of unquietude and discontent is reached.
The old man listened with serious attention, and with assenting nods that culminated in a spoken expression of his willingness to undertake the translations.
Culminating in a final terrible moment when all is revealed, Brat Farrar is a precarious adventure that grips the reader early and firmly and then holds on until the explosive conclusion.
Neither General Buller nor his troops appeared to be dismayed by the failure of their plans, or by the heavy losses which were entailed by the movement which culminated at Spion Kop.
German populace is in the actions of enslavement and murder, beginning with the exclusionary legislation of the early thirties and culminating in the Holocaust.