Phasis


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Pha´sis


n.1.See Phase.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Not Ister nor all Phasis' flood, I ween, Could wash away the blood-stains from this house, The ills it shrouds or soon will bring to light, Ills wrought of malice, not unwittingly.
334-345) And Tethys bare to Ocean eddying rivers, Nilus, and Alpheus, and deep-swirling Eridanus, Strymon, and Meander, and the fair stream of Ister, and Phasis, and Rhesus, and the silver eddies of Achelous, Nessus, and Rhodius, Haliacmon, and Heptaporus, Granicus, and Aesepus, and holy Simois, and Peneus, and Hermus, and Caicus fair stream, and great Sangarius, Ladon, Parthenius, Euenus, Ardescus, and divine Scamander.
There seemed to be something like peculiar em phasis on the words "My friend Hermann," which caused one of us (for we had just been speaking of heroism at sea) to say idly and nonchalantly:
to meet customer demands with an em- phasis on new, higher margin products.
Descending running has specific futures, given by the increased impact at the contact between leg and land in the breaking phasis on the heel as well as on the pushing impulse with the top of the foot.
While the wording might at first seem a small alteration, the change of em- phasis is profound.
Minocycline--an ol d drug for a new century: em phasis on methicillin-resistant Staphyloc occus aureus (MRSA) and Acinetobact er baumannii.
[provided] that the laboratory can show that these -patient specimens exhibit equivalent immunoreactivity" (italics added for em phasis).
phasis in lve and "There has been a change of empthe town centre, which had to evocould not rely on retail alone.