crasis
crasis \KREY-sis\, noun
Composition; constitution; makeup.
Here they are bathed in the waters of oblivion until they retain no memory of the scenes through which they
have passed; but they still preserve their original crasis and capacity.
-- Tobias George Smollett, Adventures of an Atom
This is all that ever staggered 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, seemed not to have had one single drop of Danish blood in
his whole crasis?
-- Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Crasis is derived from the Greek word kr�sis which meant "mixture, blend."
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