grecian

Greek (of or from Greece or the Greek people, especially those of Ancient Greece).

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.

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.

A native or inhabitant of Greece.

A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.

A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.

One well versed in the Greek language; a scholar of Greek.

I spoke of Mr. Harris, of Salisbury, as being a very learned man, and in particular an eminent Grecian.

[…] and I will so exhibit its very words as that the reader, even if no Grecian, may understand the point in litigation.

An Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.