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Grecian, a. and n.|ˈgriːʃ(ɪ)ən|
Also 6 Grecien, Grecyon, Grætian, Gretian, 6–8 Græcian.
[f. L. Græci-a Greece + -an. Cf. OF. grecien.]
A. adj.
1. a. Of or pertaining to Greece or its inhabitants; characteristic of the Greeks; resembling what is Greek; Greek. Now rare exc. with reference to style of architecture and facial outline.
1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 98 Doest muse with skill of Grecian tongue, how Ladie Iane was fraight. As sone as euer she was borne she was a Grecian straite. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xxiv. 65 b, If..a Græcian woman [do marry] with a Perot Franco. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 5 In such a night Troilus..sigh'd his soule toward the Grecian tents Where Cressed lay that night. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 212 Great Seleucia, built by Grecian kings. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 181 No trading for a stranger with them, but with a Grecian faith, which is not to part with your ware without ready money. 1712Addison Spect. No. 287 ⁋10 So different are the Genius's which are formed under Turkish Slavery and Grecian Liberty. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 452 It consists of three arches, and is of Grecian marble. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i. (1826) 5 Her features were of the Grecian outline. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. 157 The period when Grecian history begins to be genuine and connected. 1847Tennyson Princ. Prol. 225 A Gothic ruin and a Grecian house. 1866E. Masson tr. Winer's Gram. N.T. Diction p. vi, Hellenic..is the Attic Dialect, as modified in Athens itself, from the reign of Alexander the Great,—the period of its becoming the language of the educated throughout the Grecian world.
b. In specialized collocations: Grecian bend, an affected carriage of the body, in which it is bent forward from the hips; † Grecian calends (see calends 3 b); Grecian coil (see quot. 1966); Grecian curve = Grecian bend; † Grecian dog [misinterpretation of grew-hound], a greyhound; Grecian fire, (a) = Greek fire (see fire n. 8 b); (b) a kind of firework; Grecian horse, the wooden horse by means of which Troy was captured; Grecian knot, a method of dressing women's hair in imitation of the ancient Greek fashion; Grecian leather, netting (see quots.); Grecian nose, one that is straight and continues the line of the forehead; Grecian plait, an elaborate plait of hair made from about thirteen strands; Grecian slipper, a shop name for a soft slipper cut low at the side; Grecian splice Naut. (see quot. 1883).
1821Etonian No. 8 (1822) II. 219 In person he was of the common size, with something of the *Grecian bend, contracted doubtless from sedentary habits. 1869Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 3/3 Some [girls] affect what is called the ‘Grecian bend’. 1886Cornhill Mag. Dec. 618 He likes a smart young woman with a Grecian bend.
1806Moore Devil among Schol. 66 He..never paid a bill or balance Except upon the *Grecian Kalends.
1874C. M. Yonge Lady Hester v. 115 Her black hair in the *Grecian coil we used to wear. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 66 Grecian coil, a kind of spiral roll by which the front hair on either side of a middle parting is brought forward onto the forehead and from the forehead rolled spirally towards the ears.
1846J. G. Saxe Progress (1847) 18 ‘She stoops to conquer’ in a ‘*Grecian curve’.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 114 Among the divers kinds of hunting Dogs, the Gray-hound or *Grecian Dog..deserveth the first place.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840) I. 161 This fyr Gregeys, or *Grecian fire, seems to be a composition belonging to the Arabian chemistry. 1833Marryat P. Simple (1863) 51 Blue lights and Catherine-wheels, mines and bombs, Grecian-fires and Roman-candles. 1847Craig, Grecian-fire.
1802A. Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 244 To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens..would be nothing less than to admit the *Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.
1931Queen 25 Feb. 38/1 Little twists of hair, *Grecian knots and thick, soft plaits that clip on the back of the head..can be obtained very cheaply.
1852C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 369 Buffalo, or ‘*Grecian leather’. This leather is made of buffalo-skins, and differs from other kinds in being tanned with myrtle-leaves instead of oak-bark.
1882Caulfield & Saward Dict. Needlework 360 *Grecian Netting, used for purses when worked with fine silks, and for curtains and toilet cloths when worked with knitting cotton.
1830T. E. Hook Maxwell viii, A beautiful girl,..—Italian eyes—*Grecian nose. 1873L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) ii. 8 She has..a very good long, straight Grecian nose.
c1845C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xix. 58 Her plenteous brown hair arranged in smooth bands on her temples, and in a large *Grecian plait behind. 1851Ladies' Compan. & Monthly Mag. July 266/2 The ‘Grecian’ plait, and the ‘basket’ or ‘chain plait’, and the ‘cable plait’, are repeated again and again in various forms. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 188 Plait..Grecian, a more complicated version of the braid.
1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 654/1 Red, blue or brown leather *Grecian Slippers, with heels. 1953J. W. Johnson in J. H. Thornton Textbk. Footwear Manuf. ix. 520 The Grecian slipper usually has a folded or bagged edge and orthodox methods of closing are employed. 1970Harrods Christmas Catal. 15/3 Grecian slipper with shiny patent stripes. 87/-..Man's Shop, ground floor.
1883Man. Seamanship for Boys 124 A *Grecian Splice [description follows]. Ibid. 125 There is also another way to make a Grecian splice, by making all the yarns into foxes, leaving no heart... This splice is also used for tailing a smaller to a larger size rope, when it has to travel through a block. 1944C. W. Ashley Bk. Knots 434/2 (heading) The Grecian Shroud Splice.
†2. Belonging to the Greek Church. Obs. rare.
a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. iv. §10 Grecian catholic bishops.
B. n.
1. a. A native or inhabitant of Greece; a Greek. Obs. or arch.
1547Borde Introd. Knowl. xxi. 176 Except he be a lord or a Grecyon. 1571Digges Pantom. iv. Pref. T j, The Romanes and other Latin writers..haue not shamed to borrow of the Gretians these and many other termes of arte. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. iii. 75 Was this faire face the cause, quoth she, Why the Grecians sacked Troy? 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. i. (1715) 1 The Wars of the ancient Grecians. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. ii. (1840) 41 The great Egyptian Thebes, a city much more ancient than the nation of the Grecians. 1817Byron Beppo xi, Black eyes, arch'd brows, and sweet expressions still; Such as of old were copied from the Grecians.
allusively.1773Graves Spirit. Quixote xi. xiv. (1783) III. 230 A well-booted Grecian [cf. ἐϋκνήµιδες ἀχαιοί Hom. Il. i. 17] in a fustian frock and jockey cap.
b. [tr. Gr. Ἑλληνιστής.] A Jew of the Dispersion who spoke Greek; a Grecian Jew; = Hellenist 1.
1611Bible Acts vi. 1 There arose a murmuring of the Grecians [R.V. Grecian Jews] against the Hebrewes. 1831E. Burton Eccl. Hist. ii. (1845) 48 The Grecians were those foreign Jews, who since the captivity had lived in great numbers in different countries, and generally spoke Greek as the prevailing language. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Abb. viii. 82 A ‘Greek’ is a Gentile..; but a ‘Grecian’ is a Jew, quite as much a Jew, as truly as the stock of Abraham, as the Hebrew; and with only the difference that..he, or his fathers before him, had unlearned the Hebrew tongue and spake the Greek language.
2. a. One learned in the Greek language; a Greek scholar.
1557North tr. Gueuara's Diall Pr. 190 a/2 He became a great Gretian and latinest. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 75 Adrian being so great a Grecian..compounded certaine workes in Heroicall Metre. 1577[See A. 1]. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 239 All painfull students would be found to profit exceedingly, and to become rare Grecians in a little time. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. To Rdr. 4, I was a better Grecian in the 16th than in the 66th year of my life. 1705Hearne Collect. 10 July (O.H.S.) I. 3 One of the Græcians of Glocester Hall. 1790Cowper Lett. 30 Apr., I know him [Dr. Madan] to be a rare old Grecian. 1817W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 360 He is a great favorite of Doctor Parr, and is very anxious to make me acquainted with that formidable old Grecian. 1890Margoliouth Ecclus. in Semitic Lit. 14 The great Grecian, whose recent death closes the most brilliant period of Greek scholarship in this century, Prof. Cobet, of Leyden.
b. A boy in the highest class at Christ's Hospital (the Blue-coat School).
1820Lamb Ess. Ser. i. Christ's Hosp., The young men..who, under the denomination of Grecians, were waiting the expiration of the period when they should be sent, at the charges of the Hospital, to one or other of our Universities. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour (1861) I. 217 The two brothers..were both scholars of Christ's Hospital. They were second Grecians, and might have gone to college.
†3. A member of the Greek Church. Obs.
1547Borde Introd. Knowl. xx. 173 The Greciens do erre & swere in mani articles concerning our fayth. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. iv. §9 The Grecians' canon for some one presbyter in every church to undertake the charge of penitency..continued in force for the space of about two hundred years. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. i. (1636) 30 The Papists, under the Pope of Rome, The Grecians, under the Patriarch of Constantinople. 1766Entick London IV. 404 A chapel..where the Grecians perform divine service.
4. slang. An Irishman: = Greek n. 6.
1853J. Garwood Million-peopled City 303 The descendants [of the Irish immigrants] are called ‘Irish Cockneys’, and the new-comers are called ‘Grecians’. 1879J. Britten in N. & Q. 5th Ser. XII. 147 In many places—e.g. London, Liverpool, and Manchester—young Irishmen, on their first arrival in England, are known as Grecians. |