Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of adding a little water to the wine used for the eucharist: a primitive practice recognized in all ancient liturgies except the Armenian, mentioned by St. Justin Martyr (writing about a. d. 139) and other early writers, and believed by most liturgiologists to date from Christ's institution of the sacrament. Also called mixture.
Examples
“There is not a krasis, “a mixture,” a contemperation of the divine and human natures into one third nature, or the conversion of one into another.”
“It is not, as Grotius well observes, the krasis or temperament of the body, or anything that dies with it; but it is anthypostaton ti -- something that subsists by itself, which, after death, is somewhere else than where the body is.”
“For the purpose of this study, it is essential to invent a 'picture' that can also suggest in spatial terms the concept of the miscibility (krasis) of the”
Lists
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phrontistery - k
from phrontistery.info
kainotophobia, kaiserin, kakidrosis, kakistocracy, kakorrhaphiophobia, kalamkari, kaleidophone, kalology, kalon, kalpis, kalyptra, kame and 189 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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50 K for 50K
A list of 50 words featuring the letter K to mark listing my 50,000th entry at Wordie/Wordnik. The 50,000th was kerasine because I'm fond of arcane adjectives. The Irish term kitthoge is a nod to m...
kerasine, killcow, kinkhab, kirking, kinetheodolite, killcrop, klendusic, kitthoge, kish, kistvaen, knickpoint, knosp and 38 more...
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hernesheir Hey! Don't krasis the crème de cassis! Dec 14, 2011