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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
crisis
n 1: an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they
went bankrupt during the economic crisis"
2: a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something
"after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
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