culminate (kulminat)

[ culminating (kul'mi-nā-ting), p. a. [Ppr. of culminate, v.] 1. Being at or cro ing the meridian; being at its highest elevation, as a planet.-2. Being at its highest point, as of rank, power, magnitude, numbers, or quality. This Madonna, with the sculpture round her, represents the culminating power of Gothic art in thirteenth century. Ruskin. 1392 cal opening of the Minié and other early projectiles. Farrow, Mil. Encyc.-2. In decorative art, a rounded form, like a calyx or the sheaf of a bud, from which i ue scrolls or the like. culottic (ku-lot'ik), a. [ Young Patriotism, Culottic and Sansculottic, rushes forward. Carlyle, French Rev., II. vi. 3.