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Quotation dates: 1400-1585
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Greke, Greik, n. and a. Also: Grek, Greic, Greyk, Grike. [e.m.E. Greke (1528), pl. Grekes, ME. also Grekis, -ys, OE. Grécas.]
1. n. A Greek.(a) c1400 Troy-bk. i. 5.
Thai … knawlage haue Quhilk is a man of latyn land Besyde a grek, … Tharfor the grekes thai luf and ken c1420 Wynt. ii. 1566.
Quhen the Grekys [C. Grikis] assegeand wes The town off Troy c1420 Ib. v. 1041.
Anaclete, off natyowne A Grek [C. Greik] c1515 Asloan MS I. 186/5.
At the Grekis war the mast worschipful nacioun c1515 Ib. 309/17.
Jason a Greke of Europe 1513 Doug. ii. vii. 49.
Now lat ws change scheildis, … Grekis ensenȝeis do we cowntyrfeit(b) 1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 280/7.
The noble Tedeus & full mony vther worthy Greik 1531 Bell. Boece I. i.
Ane Greik [v.r. Greyk] namit Gathelus c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3553.
As how the Greikis wrocht vengeance a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xxxv. 107.
Minerue ane woman was … Of Greikis
2. adj. Greek, Grecian. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1933.
The auld Greik historitiane Diodorus a1568 Bannatyne MS 136 b/20.
The carling … is hir gaitis gane, Gruntling our the Greik sie
b. a. and n. Greek (language). 1456 Hay I. 222/30.
The quhilkis clerkis had all langagis, bathe Ebrew, Greic, and Latine 1559 Reg. Privy S. MS. XXX. 50.
The vnioun of the partis of orisoun in Greik and Latene speichis 1562 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 149.
Haifand nane or litill eruditioun in grammer greik or latene 1579 Misc. Bann. C. II. 191.
Sex New Testamentis in Greik
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