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crasis
[ krey-sis ]
noun
- composition; constitution; makeup.
crasis
/ ˈkreɪsɪs /
noun
- the fusion or contraction of two adjacent vowels into one Also calledsyneresis
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Word History and Origins
Origin of crasis1
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Example Sentences
For the Irascible passions do follow the temper of the heart, but the concupiscible distractions the crasis of the liver.
The prevailing intermittent fevers, he says, gave place to a new epidemic depending upon a manifest crasis of the air.
Nevertheless, he was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion.
Other examples of lengthening are 'bathos', 'pathos', while the long quantity is of course kept in 'colon' and 'crasis'.
The due combination of these was known as crasis, and existed in health.
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