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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: culminate)
Usage examples of "culminated".
At the end of a week, the old man counted out the wages agreed upon for both, and his delight culminated at the frank simplicity with which Susan took what she supposed she had fairly earned.
The German V-2 military rocket of World War II employed virtually all of Goddard’s innovations and culminated in 1948 in the two-stage launching of the V-2/WAC Corporal combination to the then-unprecedented altitude of 400 kilometers.
It was a comic masterpiece -- one that culminated when an aging human heart surrendered to anger.
By October, this ineptitude culminated in Lord Cardigan's charge of the Light Brigade, a spectacular feat of heroism which decimated three-quarters of his forces in a successful effort to capture the wrong battery of enemy guns.
Later periodic "epidemics" of street violence finally culminated in a pedestrian panic during the years 1862 and 1863, and the passage of the "Garrotting Act" by Parliament.
The attitude of the man, his bullying voice, the attitude of the Forty outfit toward the sheriff, all of it had culminated in this.
Some faint stimulus made him stir again and a violent need within him culminated suddenly in his eyes.
By mimicking the sky pattern of Orion’s belt in 10,500 bc the three great Pyramids of Giza mark a very significant moment in the 20,000-year precessional cycle of these stars—the lowest point in their slide up and down the meridian, when (as seen from the latitude of Giza) they culminated at an altitude of 9 degrees 20 minutes above the horizon (C).
At the exact moment that the top of the solar disc broke over the horizon due east in direct alignment with the gaze of the Sphinx the three stars of Orion’s belt culminated at the meridian in the pattern that is mimicked on the ground by the three great Pyramids.
First at Alexandria, then across the Levant, a general agitation began, as if triggered by some prophetic ‘device’, which culminated in the great messianic events of Christianity.
Liz said, and no longer resented the long hours that culminated in this moment.
If the views from the house had been splendid, the positioning of the Tower in a gap of the mountains gave breathtaking panoramas of the foothills, which culminated in an immense range of snowcapped crests and endless ridges.
Then, at a nod from Paul, she gave a terse report that culminated in Tubberman’s illicit use of the homing capsule.
She could almost be glad that he'd run her off the trace and so started the events that had culminated in this lovely night.
As Ruth descended to the beach, Jaxom could see dense forest extending unbroken toward the low range of foothills that culminated m that magnificent mountain.