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Webster 1913 Edition
Crisis
Cri′sis
(kr?′s?s)
, Noun.
pl.
Crises
(-s[GREEK]z)
. [L.
crisis
, Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], fr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Crisis
CRISIS
,Noun.
plu.
1.
In medical science, the change of a disease which indicates its event; that change which indicates recovery or death. It is sometimes used to designate the excretion of something noxious from the body, or of the noxious fluids in a fever.2.
The decisive state of things, or the point of time when an affair is arrive to its highth, and must soon terminate or suffer a material change.This hours the very crisis of your fate.