Definition of Grek
Greek or Eastern Church, that section of the Church which
formerly separated from the Roman or Western in 1054, which assumed an
independent existence on account of the arrogant claims of the latter,
and which acknowledges the authority of only the first seven general
councils; they dissent from the filioque doctrine (q. v.),
administer the Eucharist in both kinds to the laity, and are zealously
conservative of the orthodoxy of the Church.
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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 Calends. --
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.
Greek, n. 1. A
native, or one of the people, of Greece; a Grecian; also, the
language of Greece.
2. A swindler; a knave; a cheat.
[Slang]
Without a confederate the . . . game of baccarat does
not . . . offer many chances for the Greek.
Sat. Rev.
3. Something unintelligible; as, it was all
Greek to me. [Colloq.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
GREEK. St. Giles's Greek; the slang lingo, cant, or gibberish.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- Inhabitant of Greece, person of Greek descent
- The language of the Greek people, spoken primarily in Greece and parts of Cyprus and partially characterised by being written using the Greek alphabet. It is descended from Proto-Greek via Ancient and other forms of Greek.
- (US) A member of a college fraternity or sorority, which are commonly characterised by being named after Greek letters.
"Was Joe a Greek in college?"
- of Greece, Greek people, or the Greek language
- unintelligible, especially regarding foreign speech
It's all Greek to me.
- to display a placeholder instead of text, especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read
- to fill a template with nonsense text (particularly the Lorem ipsum), so that form and not content can be focused on
See Also
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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