crasis
composition; constitution; makeup.
Origin of crasis
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How to use crasis in a sentence
For the Irascible passions do follow the temper of the heart, but the concupiscible distractions the crasis of the liver.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 1 of 3) | Thomas BrowneThe prevailing intermittent fevers, he says, gave place to a new epidemic depending upon a manifest crasis of the air.
A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2) | Charles CreightonNevertheless, he was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion.
A Problem in Modern Ethics | John Addington SymondsOther examples of lengthening are 'bathos', 'pathos', while the long quantity is of course kept in 'colon' and 'crasis'.
Society for Pure English Tract 4 | John SargeauntThe due combination of these was known as crasis, and existed in health.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine | James Sands Elliott
British Dictionary definitions for crasis
/ (ˈkreɪsɪs) /
the fusion or contraction of two adjacent vowels into one: Also called: syneresis
Origin of crasis
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