grecian

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete, poetic)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.”

   “Chlorine blue, bordered in forest green and looking out onto a Grecian gazebo, the pool was composed of hundreds of ceramic kitchen tiles, like a Minecraft version of C.Z. Guest’s once-upon-a-time world.”

noun

1. (obsolete)A native or inhabitant of Greece.
2. A senior pupil at Christ's Hospital School in West Sussex, England.
3. (obsolete)A Jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
4. (obsolete)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.”

5. (obsolete, slang)An Irish labourer newly arrived on the British mainland.