(n.) A native or naturalized inhabitant of Greece; a Greek.
(n.) A jew who spoke Greek; a Hellenist.
(n.) One well versed in the Greek language, literature, or history.
Example Sentences:
(1) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
(2) Data analyses show significant heterogeneity in allelic frequencies at two enzyme-coding loci (ACO1 and ADH) and a relatively high estimate of genetic distance between samples from Little Grecian Rocks Reef and Grecian Rocks Reef.
(3) Colonies of the elkhorn coral (Acropora palmata), possessing raised, whitened, irregularly shaped skeletal protuberances, were discovered at Carysfort Reef and Grecian Rocks, Key Largo National Marine Sanctuary, Key Largo, FL.
(4) Her accent slides endearingly over little Grecian potholes.
(5) Or, on a bad day, Pat Butcher after an experiment with Grecian 2000.
(6) "Art is not yet in so high an estimation with us, as to obtain so great a sacrifice as the ancients made, especially the Grecians; who suffered themselves to be represented naked, whether they were generals, lawgivers, or kings."
(7) Interwar Paris was marred for Henry Miller by the fact that, as he put it, “The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced Lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance” – or anybody’s glance but his.
(8) But a Mac cannot by definition meet Keats's stipulation, regarding the Grecian urn, that "a thing of beauty is joy forever" – for it is Jobs's task to make his own ideas redundant.
(9) Unlike a Grecian urn, no great poet has written an ode to one.
Hellenist
Definition:
(n.) One who affiliates with Greeks, or imitates Greek manners; esp., a person of Jewish extraction who used the Greek language as his mother tongue, as did the Jews of Asia Minor, Greece, Syria, and Egypt; distinguished from the Hebraists, or native Jews (Acts vi. 1).
(n.) One skilled in the Greek language and literature; as, the critical Hellenist.
Example Sentences:
(1) The writers examine the course of Greek ophthalmology from the Hellenistic period to the foundation of the first universities (19th century).
(2) From Hippocrates ("Prognostic") to the hellenistic period ("Decorum"), we note an important change as to the revelation of a bad prognosis: Hippocrates advocates the blunt information of the patient when there is no hope for him; but his follower in a later century takes into consideration the patient's psychology.
(3) This paper reviews some implications of hellenistic philosophy for CBT.
(4) The book based on his thesis, Hellenistic Magic and the Synoptic Tradition, was published in 1974.
(5) The Hellenistic-style cover illustration by Cleonike Damianakes showed a seated, robed woman, head bent, eyes closed, shoulders and thigh exposed.
(6) Samothrace (Samothraki) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ancient hellenistic theatre at the Sanctuary of Great Gods, Samothrace.
(7) Although cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach, the theoretical antecedents actually date back two thousand years, to the period of the hellenistic philosophers.
(8) The introduction of falciparum malaria in southern Europe is placed in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Roman times, based on paleoclimatological evidence and historical and medical data.
(9) After Alexander the Great conquered the region, commanders from the Hellenistic state founded by his successor, Seleucus I Nicator, fortified the hill and made it into their army headquarters.
(10) 3600 B.C., through the Egyptian and Greek civilizations, the Hellenistic period, the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and into the modern period is reviewed.
(11) However, from Hellenistic to Romantic times it again increased together with increases in the incidence of malaria and in poorer farming.
(12) Its mountains and valleys were a major intellectual crossroads where the Hellenistic, Persian, Central Asian, Tibetan, Indian and Chinese worlds met and fused.
(13) Kings with names such as Diomedes of the Punjab, Menander of Kabul and Heliochles of Balkh, ruled over a remarkable Indo-Hellenistic civilisation that grew up in what is now the Taliban heartlands of the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (Fata) and eastern Afghanistan.
(14) In connexion with this work it was possible to remove twelve human skeletons from the Persian and Hellenistic Period which are described here.
(15) A human skeleton recovered from a Sicilian archaeological site and dating from the Hellenistic period (330-210 B.C.)
(16) A week ago Isis militants released a video showing them smashing statues and carvings in Mosul’s museum, which housed Assyrian and Hellenistic artefacts dating back 3,000 years.