Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. 2. (n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.

Multi-Version Concordance Crisis (1 Occurrence) 1 Corinthians 7:26 I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is. (See NIV)