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▪ I. ˈculminating, vbl. n.|ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪŋ|
[f. culminate v. + -ing1.]
The action of reaching the highest point; culmination. Often attrib., as in culminating point, point of culmination.
1726tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 265 The same Index will likewise shew the culminating, rising or setting of a given Star. 1850Gladstone Glean. V. clxvii. 270 The culminating point of the Supremacy was in the reign of Edward VI.
▪ II. ˈculminating, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That culminates; that attains to the greatest elevation.
1662Evelyn Chalcogr. 106 The culminating, or declining sun. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 202 The most culminating pyco or top [of Ararat]. 1727Pitt Horace's Odes i. xxii. (R.), Where I may view without a shade The culminating sun. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xix. (1856) 142 The culminating peak of the northern abutment.
b. fig.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 260 There is..no culminating Writer..so lofty as out of the reach of Imitation. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi, The Gothic schools exhibited that love [of variety] in culminating energy. |