Dictionary entry

Climactic

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cli‐mac″tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series.

A fourth kind of parallelism... is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called “ascending rhythm”). S. R. Driver.