Hypertext Webster Gateway: "climactic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Climactic \Cli*mac"tic\, a.
Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a
climax, or ascending series.
A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still
sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those
described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism
(sometimes called ``ascending rhythm''). --S. R.
Driver.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
climactic
adj : consisting of or causing a climax; "a peak experience" [syn:
{climactical}, {peak(a)}]
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