CRASIS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

2.
n.

A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a dipthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago.


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