Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Crasis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crasis \Cra"sis\ (kr?"s?s), n. [LL., temperament, fr. Gr. ????,
fr. ???? to mix.]
1. (Med.) A mixture of constituents, as of the blood;
constitution; temperament.
2. (Gram.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and
initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or
into a diphthong; syn[ae]resis; as, cogo for coago.
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