crasis

Definitions

1. One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A mixture or combination.
   countable, uncountable
3. The contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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 […]”

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