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noun (crases)
- (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 " Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 24)
- A mixture or combination.
- In Greek grammar, the blending of two adjacent vowels into a single long vowel or diphthong.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek (polytonic, ) "mixture".
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