Culminate

(verb.) rise to, or form, a summit; 'The helmet culminated in a crest'.

(verb.) bring to a head or to the highest point; 'Seurat culminated pointillism'.

(verb.) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; 'The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace'.

(verb.) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body.

(verb.) reach the highest or most decisive point.

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• Upon the philosophical side, these various dualisms culminate in a sharp demarcation of individual minds from the world, and hence from one another. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It was the final and culminating grace of a mature experience of life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Here we do but mention them as details in the worried life of this culminating emperor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And so on to the culminating moral, that the highest pay, the utmost importance, the freest expenditure, must be allowed to military gentlemen. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When he had said it, he took a culminating pinch of snuff, and put his box in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The plot was but thickening; the wonder but culminating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The name of Averroes (Ibn-rushd) of Cordoba (1126-1198), stands out as that of the culminating influence of Arab philosophy upon European thought. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The renascence of China that began with Suy and culminated in Tang was, Mr. Fu insists, a real new birth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Then, because he was dissatisfied with it, he stopped the sales and commenced a new line of investigation, which has recently culminated successfully. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• By 1711 in Italy, under the inventive genius of Bartolommeo Cristofori of Florence, they had culminated in the modern piano. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There was much buzzing and preparation for a long time previously, and it culminated in a wild excitement at the appointed time. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Age of Mammals culminated in ice and hardship and man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It commenced there in the seventeenth and culminated in the nineteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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