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(obsolete or poetic) Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece). quotations
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.
1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103
He was a young man with a scornful mouth and the bright blue eyes of a healthy baby set in a dark sensitive face. His hair was pitch black, damp and curly—the hair of a Grecian statue gone brunette.
1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 11
plural Grecians
(obsolete) A native or inhabitant of Greece.
A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England. examples
(obsolete) A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
(obsolete) One well versed in the Greek language; a scholar of Greek. quotations
I spoke of Mr. Harris, of Salisbury, as being a very learned man, and in particular an eminent Grecian.
1791, James Boswell, “(please specify the year)”, in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […]
[…] and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.
1847, Thomas De Quincey, “Protestantism”, in Theological Essays and Other Papers, volume 1
(obsolete, slang) An Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.