different between humours vs crasis
humours
English
Noun
humours
- plural of humour
Verb
humours
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humour
French
Noun
humours m
- plural of humour
Middle English
Noun
humours
- plural of humour
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crasis
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (krâsis, “mixture”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?e?s?s/
Noun
crasis (countable and uncountable, plural crases)
- (obsolete) One's constitution; the balance of humours in a person's body.
- , I.iii.1.2:
- Some men have peculiar symptoms, according to their temperament and crasis, which they had from the stars and those celestial influences […]
- 1759, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin 2003, p. 24:
- 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
- , I.iii.1.2:
- A mixture or combination.
- (linguistics) External vowel sandhi; contraction of a vowel or diphthong at the end of a word with a vowel or diphthong at the start of the following word.
Translations
Anagrams
- ACRISS, Sarics, crissa
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