The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greek \Greek\, a. [AS. grec, L. Graecus, Gr. ?: cf. F. grec. Cf. Grecian.] Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian.
Greek calends. See under Greek calends in the vocabulary.
Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the established church), Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia. The Greek Church is governed by patriarchs and is called also the Byzantine Church.
Greek cross. See Illust. (10) Of Cross.
Greek Empire. See Byzantine Empire.
Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under
water, the constituents of which are supposed to be
asphalt, with niter and sulphur.
--Ure.
Greek rose, the flower campion.
Usage examples of "greek cross".
Bramante's interior in the form of a simple Greek cross had been clean and pure, full of light and isolated from its surroundings.
It was a plain box of artificial wood, and it had a golden Greek cross on the top and a pure gold clasp.
There is also a Greek cross, not to mention the Latin, or Passion, cross.
The capitol itself, a granite-domed white marble building in the shape of a Greek cross, dominated the low skyline of the city.
At the same time, John noticed the crucifix which she held or rather clutched in her hands: a small Greek cross with arms of equal length, wrought of gold and encrusted with stones which he knew from his studies, though not from his father's castle, were the fabulous pearls of the East.