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.