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. (present participle of culminate English)
Usage examples of "culminating".
Only with the emergence of a strong and differentiated ego (which occurs from the third to the fifth fulcrums, culminating in formop, or rational perspectivism)only with the emergence of the mature ego does egocentrism die down!
In this Ascent, it certainly appears that Plato is describingand it is quite certain that his Neoplatonic successors were describingthe general movement that we have called the evolution or development from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, culminating in the Good "beyond Being" disclosed in "sudden illumination," which is both the summit and the goal of the soul's journey in time.
But it was Kant's noble, and in some important ways quite successful, attempt to introduce a real Ascent into the monochrome and flatland world that would drive Fichte's culminating insight into the pure Freedom of the pure Self or infinite supra-individual Subject, and this Fichtean move of pure Ascent (and the inherent problems of a pure Ascent divorced form Descent) would trigger the attempted integration with the Descending current (itself often represented by Spinoza.
In so far as it was historically due to the age-long influence, culminating in the eighteenth century, of the [Great Chain] principle of Plenitude, we may set it down among the most important and potentially the most benign of the manifold consequences of that influence.
Human centrality emerges at the culminating 'now' of a hierarchically evolving universe" (pp.
Because science had so many other things to assimilate in those exciting times (and because Guderian's discovery seemed to have no practical application whatsoever in 2034), the publication of his culminating paper caused only a brief flutter in the dovecote of physical cosmology.
The land of the southern Schwarzwald rose rapidly toward a culminating crest more than two thousand meters high, with three eminences.
Still later, after the invention of saddles and stirrups, horses allowed the Huns and successive waves of other peoples from the Asian steppes to terrorize the Roman Empire and its successor states, culminating in the Mongol conquests of much of Asia and Russia in the 13th and 14th centuries a.
But the long-term trend has still been toward large, complex societies, culminating in states.
A wiry husk surrounded the creature, culminating in a long, tapering tail.
Many salt caravans, incidentally, travel only between the districts and the local oases, while others travel between the local oases and the distant points, often culminating with Kasra or Tor.
Prolonged and hideous tortures awaited her, culminating in her public impalement, nude, upon the walls of the great kasbah at Nine Wells.
No longer would you be entitled to certain forms of torture, suitable for free persons, culminating in your honorable impalement.
It was from the strange woman next door that Saxon received a hint, dropped in casual conversation, of what proved the culminating joy of bathing.
Suffice it to say that the shield design includes concentric circles of images which summarize the essence of thought in much of this ancient Greek world, beginning with the River Ocean on the outer rim and moving through amazing images of the City at Peace and the City at War near the center, culminating in beautiful renderings of the Earth, sea, sun, moon and stars in the bull’s-eye center.