英语词汇“grand climacteric”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Any of certain supposedly critical years of human life, when a person was considered to be particularly liable to change in health or fortune; (sometimes) spec. = grand climacteric. grand climacteric: a year of life, often reckoned as the 63rd, supposed to be especially critical. †great climacteric: = grand climacteric.Ancient authors gave different accounts of the climacteric years: Aulus Gellius, for instance, identified every seventh year as climacteric and the 63rd as the most critical ( Noctes Atticae 3. 10. 9 and 15. 7), and Censorinus (3rd cent.: De diei natali 14) and Julius Firmicus Maternus (4th cent.: Mathesis 4. 20. 3) both reported that every seventh or ninth year might be regarded as climacteric, Censorinus identifying the 49th and 81st as particularly critical and Firmicus the 63rd. [With use in quots. 1645 and 1728 compare Spanish gran climatérico, although this is apparently rare and not attested before 1726 (in an example in which it refers to the 81st year).]

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1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 158 This false Prophet (sore against his will) died in his sixtie third yeare (his great Clymatericke).

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xi. 64 It is a common..custom amongst the Spaniard, when he hath pasd his gran climacteric,..to make a voluntary resignation of Offices.

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Ld. Clifford in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. A1^v I began this Work in my great Clymacterique.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 293 He lived to see one of those critical and reputed dangerous Periods of Human Life, Called the Gran Climacterics, dying in his sixty third Year.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. vii. 217 When they arrive at this Period [sc. 15 years.], and have now passed their second Climateric.

1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres II. ii. Art. iii. i. 362 Another in his grand climacteric amuses himself very seriously with cutting out figures in paper, or riding upon a hobby-horse.

1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. vi. liv. 295 Such superannuated old geese, as those who had passed their grand climacteric, ought not to meddle with affairs of which they must have lost even the memory.

1845 S. Judd Margaret iii. 201 In which of the climacterics do I now exist? I am witheringly afflicted.

1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel xi. 138 He presently began asking certain questions about the grand climacteric, which eventful period of life he was fast approaching.

1979 K. Muir Shakespeare's Sonnets iv. 76 Elizabeth I—the mortal moon as opposed to the immortal Diana—survived her grand climacteric.

1995 S. E. Grace in M. Lowry Sursum Corda! I. 532 The number sixty-three is held to be fatal because that year in a person's life was viewed superstitiously as the grand climacteric of ancient medicine.

单词	grand climacteric
释义	> as lemmas grand climacteric a. Any of certain supposedly critical years of human life, when a person was considered to be particularly liable to change in health or fortune; (sometimes) spec. = grand climacteric. grand climacteric: a year of life, often reckoned as the 63rd, supposed to be especially critical. †great climacteric: = grand climacteric.Ancient authors gave different accounts of the climacteric years: Aulus Gellius, for instance, identified every seventh year as climacteric and the 63rd as the most critical ( Noctes Atticae 3. 10. 9 and 15. 7), and Censorinus (3rd cent.: De diei natali 14) and Julius Firmicus Maternus (4th cent.: Mathesis 4. 20. 3) both reported that every seventh or ninth year might be regarded as climacteric, Censorinus identifying the 49th and 81st as particularly critical and Firmicus the 63rd. [With use in quots. 1645 and 1728 compare Spanish gran climatérico, although this is apparently rare and not attested before 1726 (in an example in which it refers to the 81st year).] ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > middle-aged person > [noun] > middle age > climacteric climate1574 climacterical1611 climacter1623 climacterial?1632 grand climacteric1634 climacteric1742 climacterium1876 climactery1887 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 158 This false Prophet (sore against his will) died in his sixtie third yeare (his great Clymatericke). 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xi. 64 It is a common..custom amongst the Spaniard, when he hath pasd his gran climacteric,..to make a voluntary resignation of Offices. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Ld. Clifford in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. A1^v I began this Work in my great Clymacterique. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 293 He lived to see one of those critical and reputed dangerous Periods of Human Life, Called the Gran Climacterics, dying in his sixty third Year. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iv. vii. 217 When they arrive at this Period [sc. 15 years.], and have now passed their second Climateric. 1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres II. ii. Art. iii. i. 362 Another in his grand climacteric amuses himself very seriously with cutting out figures in paper, or riding upon a hobby-horse. 1814 F. Burney Wanderer III. vi. liv. 295 Such superannuated old geese, as those who had passed their grand climacteric, ought not to meddle with affairs of which they must have lost even the memory. 1845 S. Judd Margaret iii. 201 In which of the climacterics do I now exist? I am witheringly afflicted. 1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel xi. 138 He presently began asking certain questions about the grand climacteric, which eventful period of life he was fast approaching. 1979 K. Muir Shakespeare's Sonnets iv. 76 Elizabeth I—the mortal moon as opposed to the immortal Diana—survived her grand climacteric. 1995 S. E. Grace in M. Lowry Sursum Corda! I. 532 The number sixty-three is held to be fatal because that year in a person's life was viewed superstitiously as the grand climacteric of ancient medicine. extracted from climactericadj.n. < as lemmas
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