1. grecian - Noun
2. grecian - Adjective
Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek.
A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnd ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace Of finer form or lovelier face. Walter Scott
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici. Bayard Taylor
Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring! Rubén Darío
The wrath of Peleus' son, O Muse, resound; Whose dire effects the Grecian army found, And many a hero, king, and hardy knight, Were sent, in early youth, to shades of night. John Dryden
I have found, by trial, Homer a more pleasing task than Virgil (though I say not the translation will be less laborious); for the Grecian is more according to my genius, than the Latin poet. John Dryden
Respecting the cosmogony of the Egyptian priests, we gather much information from writers of the Grecian sects, who borrowed almost all their tenets from Egypt, and amongst others that of the former successive destruction and renovation of the world. Charles Lyell