English Dictionary

Greek it

動詞

廃用

(obsolete) To act like a Greek, especially the Ancient Greeks. / (obsolete) To study the Ancient Greek language.

日本語の意味

（時代遅れの用法）古代ギリシャ人、特に古代ギリシャ人のように振る舞う / （時代遅れの用法）古典ギリシャ語を学ぶ

At the spring festival he decided to Greek it, reciting Homer and debating philosophy in the marketplace.

春の祭りで彼は古代ギリシャ人のように振る舞うことにし、ホメロスを朗読して市場で哲学を議論した。

意味（1）

(obsolete) To act like a Greek, especially the Ancient Greeks.

[Drinking...] sometimes as many together as there were letters contained in the names of their mistresses... Insomuch that those were prouerbially said to greeke it that quaft in that fashion.

意味（2）

(obsolete) To study the Ancient Greek language.

Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. As to dead languages, replied the ſchoolmafter, I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlack—I can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here than—than— Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence.

Greeks it （ present singular third-person ）

Greeking it （ participle present ）

Greeked it （ participle past ）

Greeked it （ past ）