Dictionary entry

Acme

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ac″me (�), 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. (Med.) The crisis or height of a disease.

3. Mature age; full bloom of life. B. Jonson.