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Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). -- n.

t of the Armenian Church, an organization similar in some doctrines and practices to the Greek Church, in others to the Roman Catholic.

plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley.

The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches)

The combining form of the Greek word 'a`stron, meaning star.

rough the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.

The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

r aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

istered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

glo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

y form of speech contrary to the pure idioms of a particular language. See Solecism. The Greeks were the first that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

barous mode of speech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.

An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

A digest of the laws of Justinian, translated from the original Latin into Greek, by order of Basil I., in the ninth century. P. Cyc.

The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.