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pl.
of Crisis
n.
Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.
n.
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.
a.
Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper.
n.
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.
n.
Culminating point or crisis; hence, strength; force; height.
adv.
At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation, place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification critically situated.
v. t.
To urge or press on with eager haste or violence; to cause to happen, or come to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict.
a.
Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.
n.
The crisis or height of a disease.
n.
A crisis produced by a combination of circumstances; complication or combination of events or circumstances; plight resulting from various conditions.
n.
Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
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Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
n.
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.
n.
A point of time; esp., one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances; hence, a crisis; an exigency.
a.
Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
n.
A crisis.
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