English-Thai Dictionary
climacteric
N ช่วง วัย ที่ มี การเปลี่ยนแปลง ทาง สภาพ จิตใจ crucial period chuang-wai-ti-me-kan-pian-plaeng-tang-sa-pab-jid-jai
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CLIMACTERIC
a.Literally, noting a scale, progression, or gradation; appropriately, denoting a critical period of human life, or a certain number of years, at the end of which a great change is supposed to take place in the human constitution. [See the noun. ]
CLIMACTERIC
n.A critical period in human life, or a period in which some great change is supposed to take place in the human constitution. The critical periods are supposed by some persons to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7 and 9; to which others add the 81st year. The 63rd year is called the grand climacteric. It has been supposed that these periods are attended with some remarkable change in respect to health, life or fortune.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CLIMACTERIC
Cli *mac "ter *ic ( or; 277 ), a. Etym: [L. climactericus, Gr. Climacter. ]
Defn: Relating to a climacteric; critical.
CLIMACTERIC
CLIMACTERIC Cli *mac "ter *ic, n.
1. A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.
2. Any critical period. It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. Grand or Great climacteric, the sixty-third year of human life. I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.
CLIMACTERICAL
CLIMACTERICAL Clim `ac *ter "ic *al, a. & n.
Defn: See Climacteric. Evelyn.
New American Oxford Dictionary
climacteric
cli mac ter ic |klīˈmaktərik, ˌklīmakˈterik klaɪˈmæktərɪk | ▶noun a critical period or event: the first major climacteric in twentieth-century poetry. • Medicine the period of life when fertility and sexual activity are in decline; (in women ) menopause. • Botany the ripening period of certain fruits such as apples, involving increased metabolism and only possible while still on the tree. ▶adjective having extreme and far-reaching implications or results; critical: Britain must possess so climacteric a weapon in order to deter an atomically armed enemy. • Medicine occurring at, characteristic of, or undergoing the climacteric; (in women ) menopausal. • Botany (of a fruit ) undergoing a climacteric. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘constituting a critical period in life ’): from French climactérique or via Latin from Greek klimaktērikos, from klimaktēr ‘critical period, ’ from klimax ‘ladder, climax. ’
Oxford Dictionary
climacteric
climacteric |klʌɪˈmakt (ə )rɪk, ˌklʌɪmakˈtɛrɪk | ▶noun 1 a critical period or event. 2 Medicine the period of life when fertility and sexual activity are in decline; (in women ) menopause. 3 Botany the ripening period of certain fruits such as apples, involving increased metabolism and only possible while still on the tree. ▶adjective 1 having extreme and far-reaching implications or results; critical. 2 Medicine occurring at, characteristic of, or undergoing the climacteric; (in women ) menopausal. 3 Botany (of a fruit ) undergoing a climacteric. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘constituting a critical period in life ’): from French climactérique or via Latin from Greek klimaktērikos, from klimaktēr ‘critical period ’, from klimax ‘ladder, climax ’.
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