Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Climactic

Climactic , adjective

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