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grecian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grecian \Gre"cian"\, a. [Cf. Greek.] Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek.
Grecian bend, among women, an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclined forward. [Collog.]
Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.
Grecian \Gre"cian\, n.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
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A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
--Acts vi. 1.Note: The Greek word rendered Grecian in the Authorized Version of the New Testament is translated Grecian Jew in the Revised Version.
6. One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
--De Quincey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Latin Graecia âGreeceâ (see Greek) + people ending -ian. The noun meaning "a Greek" is from early 15c.
Wikipedia
Grecian is an adjective referring to artefacts or culture of Ancient Greece. Wikipedia articles pertaining to this meaning include:
- Grecian runes, an alphabet dating to Ancient Greece
- Grecian philosophy, a system of thought and aesthetics
- Grecian vase, pottery of ancient Greece
- Ode on a Grecian Urn, a poem written by John Keats in 1819
Other uses:
Maritime- Grecian (1812), an American 5-gun schooner Grecian (1812) captured by the British in 1814 and renamed HMS Grecian
- Grecian (1824 ship), a ship wrecked on the New South Wales coast in 1864
- Grecian (barque), sailing ship wrecked in 1850 off Port Adelaide
- HMS Grecian: any of four ships, see the disambiguation page HMS Grecian
:*HMS Grecian was the 5-gun American schooner Grecian (1812) captured in 1814 and armed with 10 guns
:*HMS Grecian, the 10-gun revenue cutter Dolphin, renamed in 1821 and sold in 1827.
:*HMS Grecian, a 16-gun brig-sloop launched in 1838 and broken up in 1865.
:*HMS Grecian, an Auk-class minesweeper transferred to Britain under Lend-lease
other ...- Grecian Anomalous Blue, a butterfly found on the Balkan Peninsula
- Grecian Bend, a stooped posture, also a dance, named after the gracefully inclined figures seen in the art of Ancient Greece
- Grecian Coffee House, a London coffee house founded around 1665, a favoured meeting-place for members of the Royal Society
- Grecian Formula, a men's hair coloring product
- Grecian Foxglove, a poisonous plant
- Grecian juniper or Greek juniper, a large shrub
- Grecian laurel, a large aromatic shrub
- Grecian Old Style, better known as Goudy Old Style, a typeface
- Grecian Queen, an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse, foaled in 1950
- Grecian Rocks (reef), a coral reef in the Key Largo area
- Grecian rose, Geum quellyon, a plant native to Chile
- Grecian Shelter, an architectural feature of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York
- Grecian Shoemaker, a butterfly of Central and South America
The Grecian was a sailing ship which was wrecked in a storm off Port Adelaide, South Australia in October 1850.
Usage examples of "grecian".
A crowd of temples and of votive altars, profusely scattered along its steep and woody banks, attested the unskilfulness, the terrors, and the devotion of the Grecian navigators, who, after the example of the Argonauts, explored the dangers of the inhospitable Euxine.
We may from hence perceive that the history of the Anakim was not totally obliterated among the Grecians.
It is certain that it occurred in the antient sphere of Egypt, whence the Grecians received it.
The jurisdiction of that province extended over the ancient monarchies of Troy, Lydia, and Phrygia, the maritime countries of the Pamphylians, Lycians, and Carians, and the Grecian colonies of Ionia, which equalled in arts, though not in arms, the glory of their parent.
The central figure in this sharing of affection was Artemisia, the white of her Grecian gown glowing as if it fed on the little remaining light, and even as I tried to swallow my jealousy, Michael whom she had first called Mishaleaned over her, removing her scarf from about his neck and wrapping it around hers.
The Atlantians were esteemed by the Grecians as barbarous: but they were in reality of the same family.
Wearing the mask of a sixteen-year-old, black-haired girl with a Grecian nose and flashing eyes, Feynman turned on his considerable charm.
Sanchoniathon, and in the Grecian Genealogy of the Gods given by Hesiod.
The special quality and type of Hellenism we must deduce from similar material concerning Greeks and things Grecian.
In Arcadia, and Elis, the most antient rites were preserved: and the Grecians might have known, that the terms Hippa and Hippia were of foreign purport from the other titles given to Juno at Olympia.
Holmes, however, is, I fancy, of a different way of thinking, and holds to this day that, if one could find the Grecian girl, one might learn how the wrongs of herself and her brother came to be avenged.
Halley was gone, Maclaurin left word that they should all meet at the Grecian Coffeehouse and then retired angrily to his room, leaving Ben the task of watching for the other members of the society.
Crete, although its chiefs, Idomeneus and Meriones, are only of secondary rank among the heroes of the Iliad, is obviously one of the most important of Grecian lands.
The architecture is Modern Neoclassic, which the best architects decry with some justice, but which is the closest approach in stainless steel, glass and planed limestone to that Grecian ideal which has been irrevocably planted in the human mind as the proper form of a public building.
The district, upon which the Grecians conferred it, could not have supplied people sufficient to occupy the many regions, which the Phenicians were supposed to have possessed.