point of culmination
61acme — noun /ˈækmi/ a) The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. b) The crisis or height of a disease. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy …
62climax — index ceiling, cessation (termination), conclude (complete), consequence (conclusion), crossroad (turning point) …
63OLIVER, Isaac — (c. 1565 1617) Isaac Oliver, French by birth, became well known as a limner, a painter of miniature portraits, receiving his training from the greatest of the Tudor miniaturists, Nicholas Hilliard.* He took the art of the miniature beyond its… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
64décroît — [ dekrwa ] n. m. • 1583; decreis « décadence » XIIe; de décroître ♦ Astron. Décroissement de la Lune, qui entre dans son dernier quartier. La Lune est dans, sur son décroît. ⇒DÉCROÎT, subst. masc. Vieilli. Action de diminuer (en nombre, force,… …
65culminaison — [kylminɛzɔ̃] n. f. ÉTYM. 1910, Péguy; de culminer. ❖ ♦ Fig. (rare et littér.). Point culminant. ⇒ Culmination. || « Cette culminaison, ce couronnement » (Péguy, in T. L. F.) …
66bring\ to\ a\ head — v. phr. To cause some activity to reach the point of culmination. Time is running out, gentlemen, so let us bring this discussion to a head …
67cap — n 1. beanie, skullcap, zuchetto, calotte, beret, tam o shanter, tarn, calpac, toque, castor, montero, tuque, stocking cap, Inf. toboggan; nightcap, biggin; turban, tarboosh, fez, shako, barret, Rom. Cath. Ch. biretta; hat, bonnet, sombrero, ten… …
68heyday — n prime, pink, efflorescence, fructification, flower, full flowering or blossoming, bloom, blossom; peak, pinnacle, summit, acme, zenith, height, top, tiptop; cap, crown, crowning point, meridian, culmination, consummation …
69plateau — by Tamsin Lorraine Rather than plotting points or fixing an order, Deleuze and Guattari wrote their book, A Thousand Plateaus, as a rhizome composed of plateaus . They claim that the circular form they gave it was only for laughs (D&G 1987:… …
70plateau — by Tamsin Lorraine Rather than plotting points or fixing an order, Deleuze and Guattari wrote their book, A Thousand Plateaus, as a rhizome composed of plateaus . They claim that the circular form they gave it was only for laughs (D&G 1987:… …
