διά-κρῐσις, εως, ἡ,
separation, dissolution, opposed to σύγκρισις, [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 58, 5th c.BC: Anaxagoras Philosophus 10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 243b, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; segregation, τῶν ἡμαρτηκότων [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 2.14.8 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; discrimination, καλοῦ τε καὶ κακοῦ [[ NT.Heb.5.14; πνευμάτων NT.1Cor.12.10 ] NT]; differentiation, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 1. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__2 in concrete sense, resolved form, ἡ ἀτμὶς ὕδατος δ. ἐστιν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 340b3, 341b15. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II decision, determination, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 765a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.27, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1169 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; judicial decision, [[ PLond. 2.476.9 (1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]: metaphorically, [[ NT.Rom.14.1 (_plural_)] NT]; interpretation of dreams or omens, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.55, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.34.5 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; δ. σημειώσεως medical diagnosis, [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.23 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: but in plural, αἱ ἐκ νούσων δ. determinations, crises, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Genit.” 3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 examination or revision of accounts, δ. πρακτόρων Wilcken [[ “Chr.” 41 iii6(3rd c.AD). ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__III decision by battle, τάξεων πρὸς ἀλλήλους [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 18.28.3 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; quarrel, dispute, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.29U., 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 109, “Milet.” 3.149.39. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]