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   Crisis , n.; pl. Crises . [L. crisis, Gr. , fr.  to separate. See Certain.]
   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.
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   This hour's the very crisis of your fate.
   Dryden.
   
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   The very times of crisis for the fate of the country.
   Brougham.
   
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   (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.
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   Till some safe crisis authorize their skill.
   Dryden.
   
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