Greek

a. [Lat. Græcus, Fr. Grec, Pr. Gret, Greg, Sp. Greco, Griego, It. Greco, A-S. Grec, Grāc.] (Geog.) Pertaining or belonging to Greece; Grecian.

Greek church (Eccl. Hist.), the eastern church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or western church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia, Greece, Moldavia, and Wallachia, and is governed by patriarchs. — Greek fire, a combustible composition which burns under water, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur. Ure.