crasis

[ krey-sis ]

noun

, Archaic.

, plural cra·ses [krey, -seez].

1. composition; constitution; makeup.

crasis

/ ˈkreɪsɪs /

noun

1. the fusion or contraction of two adjacent vowels into one Also calledsyneresis

Word History and Origins

Origin of crasis¹

1595–1605; < Greek krâsis mixture, blend, equivalent to krā- (base of kerannýnai to mix) + -sis -sis

Word History and Origins

Origin of crasis¹

C17: from Greek krasis a mingling, from kerannunai to mix

Example Sentences

For the Irascible passions do follow the temper of the heart, but the concupiscible distractions the crasis of the liver.

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The prevailing intermittent fevers, he says, gave place to a new epidemic depending upon a manifest crasis of the air.

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Nevertheless, he was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion.

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Other examples of lengthening are 'bathos', 'pathos', while the long quantity is of course kept in 'colon' and 'crasis'.

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The due combination of these was known as crasis, and existed in health.

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