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American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1
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Climacteric
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 September 14, 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. 14 Sep. 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 14 September 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=G3AM72ZLJZAYIX5.
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