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What is a crasis?

What is a crasis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
  2. A mixture or combination.
  3. (linguistics) 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.
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In some cases analogous to crasis two simple tags best describe a single Greek word.
Nevertheless, he was led to surmise a crasis of the two sexes in persons subject to sexual inversion.
The due combination of these was known as crasis, and existed in health.
For the Irascible passions do follow the temper of the heart, but the concupiscible distractions the crasis of the liver.

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