climaces

He must penetrate to the idea of the astronomer and the artist, and then he will be in a condition to criticise the manner in which it is set forth—a necessity which is equally applicable to the eloquent climaces of the writer, and to the highly ideal designs of the painter.

1851 July, “The Architecture of the Heavens. By J. P. Nichol, […]. 1850.”, in The Eclectic Review, volume II, London: Ward and Co., […], page 56

Carlyle is the climax (or, at least, one of the climaces) of that Germanic influence which first appeared in general literature about the time of Scott, and which, indeed, Scott himself helped on, just about a year after Carlyle was born, by his translations of “Burger’s Ballads,” and Göthe’s “Götz von Berlichengen.”

1875 Auust, T. W. Cameron, “Notes on Carlyle”, in William Francis Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine, volume IX, number XLIII, London: E W. Allen, […], pages 202–203

Her [Maria Edgeworth’s] Moral Tales are a series of climaces of instances, an enlargement of [Louis-Claude Chéron de] La Bruyère’s idea, a method allowable to creations of fancy, but not quite justifiable when applied to the probable.

1883, Helen Zimmern, “Irish and Moral Tales”, in John H. Ingram, editor, Maria Edgeworth (Eminent Women Series), London: W. H. Allen & Co., […], page 58

Few things in choral praise can be imagined more thrilling than the ‘roar’ of a congregation, here in unison, especially occurring immediately after the more subdued harmony by the choir of those verses of penitential character, which, with musicianlike craft, the psalmist always makes to precede and to lead up to the four fine climaces of the words quoted.

1889 May 1, “Recently Published. […] The Prayer-Book Psalter […] by Sir Herbert Oakeley, […]. Extracts from Reviews.”, in The Musical Times and Singing-Class Circular, volume XXX, number 555, London; New York, N.Y.: Novello, Ewer and Co., page 309, column 2

The distinction here made between climatic and physiographic climaces is admittedly somewhat arbitrary, but the underlying idea is one of great practical as well as theoretical importance.[…]In other words, physiographic climaces of this description represent the climatic climax.[…]The climatic climax is attained on the better sites, but on much of the area coniferous forests occur, which represent physiographic climaces due to local edaphic or topographic factors.[…]Elsewhere, owing to the effect of factors which preclude the development of the regional type, the succession of vegetation may be halted lower down in the successional series and physiographic climaces result.

1923, Ecology, pages 172, 173, 324, and 434