a. Rhet. [f. CLIMAX, app. after syntax, syntactic, or influenced by climacteric, but not on Greek analogies.] Pertaining to, or forming, a climax or ascending series.
1872. Minto, Eng. Lit., I. ii. 124. His balanced sentences … and climactic arrangement.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., x. 212. Give the history of development a climactic form.
a. 1876. Eadie, Thessalonians, 44. The second και is climactic.
