post-climactericn.adj.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˌklʌɪmakˈtɛrɪk/, /ˌpəʊs(t)klʌɪˈmakt(ə)rɪk/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)klaɪˈmækt(ə)rɪk/, /ˈˌpoʊs(t)ˌklaɪˌmækˈtɛrɪk/ A. n.
Old age. rare.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun]
eld971
old agec1330
agec1380
last agea1382
oldc1385
aldereldea1400
winterc1425
vilessec1430
annosityc1450
senectute1481
the black ox1546
golden years1559
years1561
great1587
afterlife1589
setting sun1597
antiquity1600
chair-daysa1616
the vale of yearsa1616
grandevity1623
green old age1634
eldship1647
senioritya1688
the other side of the hill1691
the decline of life1711
senectude1756
senility1791
senectitude1796
post-climacteric1826
Anno Domini1885
senium1911
golden age1946
1826 Times 20 Oct. 2/2 Is it possible that the veriest Ultra, even in the dotage of his post-climacteric, should be so stupid as not to feel that such adulation is..injurious to the poor helpless infants who are the objects of it?.
1922 G. S. Hall Senescence viii. 413 Senescents in the post-climacteric acuminate their personality, sometimes to the point of idiosyncrasy and eccentricity.
B. adj.
Medicine and Biology. Designating, relating to, or in the period of old age or senescence; spec. postmenopausal.
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1897 A. D. L. Napier Menopause iv. 100 Of 500 post-climacteric cases, 36·5 per cent. had a return of hæmorrhage after the menopause had been established a year or more.
1973 E. A. Moscovic tr. J. Botella-Llusiá Endocrinol. of Woman xvii. 364/2 The classic concept held that in postmenopausal woman estrogenic activity had been wiped out completely by the time woman entered the postclimacteric phase.
1997 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 158 811 The postclimacteric (senescence) period was characterized by a spermidine/putrescine ratio of 1.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1826