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Webster 1913 Edition


Grecian

Gre′cian′

,
Adj.
[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
.

Gre′cian

,
Noun.
1.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
2.
A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
Acts vi. 1.
☞ 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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Grecian

GRE'CIAN

,
Adj.
Pertaining to Greece.

GRE'CIAN

,
Noun.
A native of Greece. Also, a Jew who understood Greek. Acts.6.
1.
One well versed in the Greek language.

Definition 2024


Grecian

Grecian

See also: Graecian, Græcian, and Gracian

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Grecian (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete or poetic) Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).
    • 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:
      Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.

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Grecian (plural Grecians)

  1. (obsolete) A native or inhabitant of Greece.
  2. A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.
  3. (obsolete) A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
  4. (obsolete) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
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