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Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language. Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness, as well as care. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

The language of the Hebrews; -- one of the Semitic family of languages.

hrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism. Addison.

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).

Pertaining to the Hellenists. Hellenistic language, dialect, or idiom, the Greek spoken or used by the Jews who lived in countries where the Greek language prevailed; the Jewish-Greek dialect or idiom of the Septuagint.

To use the Greek language; to play the Greek; to Grecize.

A book in seven languages.

Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language. T. Warton.

A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celtic languages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.

Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. M. Arnold.

High-flown, bombastic language. [Written also hifalutin.] [Jocular, U. S.] Lowell.

king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, etc.; applied esp. to certain ancient inscriptions showing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

The name given by Europeans to that form of the Hindustani language which is chiefly spoken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. Whitworth.

Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language. -- n.