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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.

Same as Synanthesis.

Highest state; acme; consummation; perfection. Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. Milton.

Top; summit; acme. R. North.

one can go or attain; hence, the summit of achievement; the highest point or degree; the acme.

Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. Dunglison.

decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme. [Obs.]

The highest degree; the utmost elevation; the acme; as, the summit of human fame.

The utmost degree; the acme; the summit. The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work. Pope.

rostration and muscular debility, gradually increasing and often becoming profound at the acme of the disease. Its local lesions are a scanty eruption of spots, resembling flea bites, on the belly, enlargement of the spleen, and ulceration of the intestines over the areas occupied by Peyer's glands. The virus, or conta…