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Acme
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The top or highest point; the culmination. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.
2. The crisis or height of a disease.
3. Mature age; full bloom of life. B. Jonson.