The Collaborative International Dictionary
climb-down \climb-down\ n. 1. a retraction of a previously held position.
Syn: withdrawal, backdown.
Grand climacteric or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life.
I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be
regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand
climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to
stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds
of their barbarous metaphysics.
--Burke.
Usage examples of "grand climacteric".
Some of us cannot keep our flies zipped, others remain faithful to one mate till menopause or the Grand Climacteric steps in.
Beazeley, the housekeeper, was a good-tempered woman, long passed the grand climacteric, and strongly attached to Forster, with whom she had resided many years.
And the grand climacteric of a four-month's private war would be reached.
And the grand climacteric of a four-months private war would be reached.