1. acme - Noun
2. Acme - Proper noun
The top or highest point; the culmination.
The crisis or height of a disease.
Mature age; full bloom of life.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFor to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Sun Tzu
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. Sun Tzu
The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says. John Marshall
The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser. Vladimir Nabokov
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires. Ali
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man. Edward Thorndike