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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Crisis \Cri"sis\ (kr?"s?s), n.; pl. {Crises} (-s[?]z). [L. crisis, Gr. [?][?][?][?], fr. [?][?][?][?] to separate. See {Certain}.] 1. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. --Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. --Brougham. 2. (Med.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. --Dryden. | |
