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Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher -- n.

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  • GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
    A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
  • GREEKLING
    A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
  • GREEKISH
    Peculiar to Greece.
  • FAMOUSNESS
    The state of being famous.
  • FAMOUSLY
    In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • FAMOUSED
    Renowned. Shak.
  • ARISTOTLE'S LANTERN
    The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins.
  • GREEKESS
    A female Greek.
  • PHILOSOPHER
    1. One who philosophizes; one versed in, or devoted to, philosophy. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. 2. One who reduces the principles of philosophy to practice in the conduct of life;
  • FAMOUS
    Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
  • GREEK CALENDAR
    1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatombæon . 2. Metageitnion . 3. Boëdromion . 4. Pyanepsion . 5. Mæmacterion
  • GREEK
    Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends. -- Greek Church , the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk
  • INFAMOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
  • INFAMOUSLY
    In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.
  • FENUGREEK
    A plant cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants,
  • NEO-GREEK
    A member of a body of French painters of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.
  • DEFAMOUS
    Defamatory.
  • INFAMOUS
    Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness. 4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky;

 

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