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crasis
/ˈkɹeɪsɪs/
noun 3
Collocations
4VERB + CRASIS
use
CRASIS + NOUN
consonant, lene
PREP.
in
ADV.
perfectly
Definitions
noun
1
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
2
A mixture or combination.
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.
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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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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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 o
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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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I still don't know how to use the crasis perfectly.
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