(from σκόπισμα, to mix or temper), the temper of the blood peculiar to every constitution.

Grammar, a figure by which two different letters are contracted into one long letter or into a diphthong, as ἀληθής for ἀληθεῖς; τροφῆς for τροφῆς, &c. It is sometimes improperly confounded with synaxis.