Climacteric

Name: American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 - Climacteric
Author: Noah Webster

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 63d year is called the grand climacteric. It has been supposed that these periods are attended with some remarkable change in respect o health, life or fortune.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Climacteric," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed May 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=G3AM72ZLJZAYIX5.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Climacteric." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 3 May. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=G3AM72ZLJZAYIX5.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Climacteric' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 3 May 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=G3AM72ZLJZAYIX5.