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/ˈkɹeɪsɪs/ · noun
(obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body..
Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
This is all that ever stagger'd my faith in regard to Yorick’s extraction, who, by what I can remember of him, and by all the accounts I could ever get of him, seem'd not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in his whole crasis
When in a crasis, a lene consonant […] is combined with an aspirated vowel, the lene is always changed (except in the Ionic dialect) into the corresponding aspirate […]
Use crasis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Crasis means (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body..
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Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
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