climacterically

Updated: April 30, 2025

He was a man of moderate height, a little shortened in appearance by his equatorial dimensions, and a face that had been mellow from the first was now climacterically ripe.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

And surely if we deduct all those days of our life which we might wish unlived, and which abate the comfort of those we now live, if we reckon up only those days which God hath accepted of our lives, a life of good years will hardly be a span long; the son in this sense may outlive the father, and none be climacterically old.

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6

And surely if we deduct all those days of our life which we might wish unlived, and which abate the comfort of those we now live; if we reckon up only those days which God hath accepted of our lives, a life of good years will hardly be a span long: the son in this sense may outlive the father, and none be climacterically old.

Alexander Whyte - Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici': an Appreciation