English

Etymology
From AGr. polytonic|κ�ά�ι� �mixture�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/�kreɪsɪs/

Noun
en-noun|crases

1. obsolete One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.

#:*1759: 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 � Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 24)

1. A mixture or combination.
2. In Greek grammar, the blending of two adjacent vowels into a single long vowel or diphthong.

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• 2007-06-29 22:25 - AutoFormat - -''(obsolete)'' +{{obsolete}}

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