Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being at the highest altitude.
- adjective Reaching the highest point or degree; highest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Culminating; reaching the highest point.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Being
vertical , or at the highest point ofaltitude . - adjective by extension
predominant
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Examples
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And, oh my, should I even mention the first great culminant moment of this movieare there more in a movie?
February 2008 Addie 2008
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And, oh my, should I even mention the first great culminant moment of this movieare there more in a movie?
I must be a masochist (otherwise known as a very long movie review) Addie 2008
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En effet, je fais des poussées de fievre fulgurante, culminant a 40 .... 38 dans le meilleur des cas ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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The culminant point of this was the Chief of Police himself pointing at me while he rode by and telling me to be good.
spectre12 Diary Entry spectre12 2005
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[113] "C'etait l'époque de la plus grande splendeur extérieure de l'empire des Arabes, où leur pouvoir, et en même temps leur culture intellectuelle et littáraire, atteignirent leur point culminant."
The Faith of Islam Edward Sell
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Mr. Lockhart shall furnish us with the brightest aspect a British Ferney ever yielded, or is like to yield: and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scotts life: It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing-match on Newark Hill.
Paras. 50-73 1909
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'In other lips indeed than Othello's, at the crowning minute of culminant agony, the rush of imaginative reminiscence which brings back upon his eyes and ears the lightning foam and tideless thunder of the Pontic Sea might seem a thing less natural than sublime.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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Thames -- old Religious Houses for the most part, now disguised and pulled about beyond recognition, ranging right and left from the Ludgate itself: behind these rose again towers and roofs, and high above all the tall spire of the Cathedral, as if to gather all into one, culminant aspiration ....
Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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August, and with the glowing month returned Aaron Burr, his designs ripened, his enthusiasm culminant.
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878
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As the culminant point of the island, Pelée is also the ruler of its meteorologic life, -- cloud - herder, lightning-forger, and rain-maker.
Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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