1. culminate - Adjective
2. culminate - Verb
To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMarriages should culminate on account of the wishes of the couple. It is their knitting of the hearts that should lead to marriages. Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. Hans Hofmann
The surrender that was to culminate in Munich had begun. William L. Shirer
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. José Martí
Negative dialectics ... does not presuppose the identity of being and thought, nor does it culminate in that identity. Instead it will attempt to articulate the very opposite, namely the divergence of concept and thing, subject and object. Theodor Adorno
The encompassing, creative mind recognizes no boundaries. The mind has ever brought new spheres under its control. All our experiences culminate in the perception of the universe as a whole, with man as its center. Hans Hofmann