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Meaning of 'crasis' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Crasis [ n.]
- A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
- A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago.

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