Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-CRI'TA
A-CRI'TA, n. [plur.; Gr. ακριτος, indiscernible.]
- A name given to certain species of marine animals or infusories. – Kirby.
- In medicine, defect of crisis or of a separation and expulsion of morbific matter in the human body.
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