phasis

He possessed qualities, which, under a different phasis of society, would have developed themselves in marked acts of benevolence.

The Indian is to be viewed here, as elsewhere, as being in the highest state of his physical, not of his mental phasis.

The enormous apparatus of literature at the present time is suitable only to a peculiar phasis and manner of existence.

I had seen human nature in a new phasis; and I engaged several of my school-fellows to keep up a literary correspondence with me.

When two ages are in the same phasis, they will excite the same humours, and produce the same coincidences and combinations.