▪ I. ˈculminating, vbl. n.
(ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪŋ)
[f. culminate v. + -ing1.]
The action of reaching the highest point; culmination. Often attrib., as in culminating point, point of culmination.
| 1726 tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 265 The same Index will likewise shew the culminating, rising or setting of a given Star. 1850 Gladstone Glean. V. clxvii. 270 The culminating point of the Supremacy was in the reign of Edward VI. |
▪ II. ˈculminating, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That culminates; that attains to the greatest elevation.
| 1662 Evelyn Chalcogr. 106 The culminating, or declining sun. 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 202 The most culminating pyco or top [of Ararat]. 1727 Pitt Horace's Odes i. xxii. (R.), Where I may view without a shade The culminating sun. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xix. (1856) 142 The culminating peak of the northern abutment. |
b. fig.
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 260 There is..no culminating Writer..so lofty as out of the reach of Imitation. 1853 Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi, The Gothic schools exhibited that love [of variety] in culminating energy. |