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A kind of lyre used by the Greeks. Mrs. Browning.

r pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants. Phrygian mode (Mus.), one of the ancient Greek modes, very bold and vehement in style; -- so called because fabled to have been invented by the Phrygian Marsyas. Moore (Encyc. of Music). -- Phrygian stone, a light, spongy stone, resembling a pumice, -- used by the ancien…

A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape. It has been adopted in modern art as the so-called liberty cap, or cap of liberty.

Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n.

A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.

s way, as in the dark; to grope; as, to poke about. A man must have poked into Latin and Greek. Prior.

A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.

A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop. Apostolic prefect (R. C. Ch.), the head of a mission, not of episcopal rank. Shipley.

opular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church.

A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.

One who maintains that the New Testament was written in pure Greek. M. Stuart.

ve. Chaucer. Put the perception and you put the mind. Berkeley. These verses, originally Greek, were put in Latin. Milton. All this is ingeniously and ably put. Hare.

Of or pertaining to an ancient Greek martial dance. " ye have the pyrrhic dance as yet." Byron.

Of or pertaining to Pythagoras (a Greek philosopher, born about 582 b. c.), or his philosophy. The central thought of the Pythagorean philosophy is the idea of number, the recognition of the numerical and mathematical relations of things. Encyc. Brit. Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square describ…

e Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician, the ultimate origin being Egyptian. Etymologically, q or qu is most nearly related to a (ch, tch), p, q, and wh; as in cud, quid, L. equus, ecus, horse, Gr. equine, hippic; L. quod which, E. wha…

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off. And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia. [Written also rascolnik.]

up into the land. "The river's wooded reach." Tennyson. The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches. Holland.