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rise "Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" -- a happy climax. J. D. Forbes.

h the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

To complete; to crown; to bring to the highest point or consummation; as, to cap the climax of absurdity.

Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in due gradation, to another; climax; e. g., "He not only spared his enemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, but advanced them." Johnson.

An amplification without strict climax, as in the following passage: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, . . . think on these things. Phil. iv. 8. Infinite…

The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax. [R.] Carlyle.

To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically: --

Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax.