OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12122

acme

/ˈæk.mi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acmé • apogeo • cúspide
A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.
Eum.: Our Loves what are they But howerly Sacrifices, only wanting The prease and tumult of Solemnity? If then i'th' heat and Achme of Devotion We drink a new fiame in, can it be o…
The Latin tong, euen whan it was, as the Grecians say, in ακμη, that is, at the hiest pitch of all perfitenesse.
acmé
Synonym of crisis, the decisive moment in the course of an illness.