Synonyms for crasis:
noun individuality
Examples of uses:
For the Irascible passions do follow the temper of the heart, but the concupiscible distractions the crasis of the liver.
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Title: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 1 of 3), author: Thomas Browne, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39960/39960-h/39960-h.htm
The prevailing intermittent fevers, he says, gave place to a new epidemic depending upon a manifest crasis of the air.
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Title: A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume II (of 2), author: Charles Creighton, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43671/43671-h/43671-h.htm
Nevertheless, he was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion.
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Title: A Problem in Modern Ethics, author: John Addington Symonds, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32588/32588-h/32588-h.htm
Other examples of lengthening are 'bathos', 'pathos', while the long quantity is of course kept in 'colon' and 'crasis'.
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Title: Society for Pure English Tract 4, author: John Sargeaunt, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15364/15364-h/15364-h.htm
The due combination of these was known as crasis, and existed in health.
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Title: Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine, author: James Sands Elliott, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21325/21325-h/21325-h.htm
