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† Grew, n.1 and a. Obs. (After 15th c. chiefly Sc.)
Forms: 3–4 greu, gru, (3 gryu, 4 griu), 4, 5 grw, 4–6 grew(e, 5, 6 grue, (5 griewe).
[a. OF. griu:—L. Græcum Greek.]
A. n.
1. The Greek language, Greek.
c1275Passion our Lord 470 in O.E. Misc. 50 Hit wes iwryten on ebreu, on gryv, and latyn. a1300Cursor M. 16689 Of hebru, gru, and latine. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 245 Þey torned Holy Writte out of Ebrew in to Grewe. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 90 Thys worde Hympne is a worde of grew. c1480Henryson Orpheus vi, The first in grew was callit Euterpe. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 181 Thus was he clad, and with letteris of grew In fine Scriptour, I saw it writtin new.
2. A Greek.
a1300Cursor M. 19740 Paulus..fast disputed wit þe gruus. c1350Will. Palerne 2080 And þe grewes for gremþe ginneþ on me werre. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 180 If a man desiriþ for to haue blac heeris as doiþ greuis & spay⁓nardis, þanne make þis tincture.
3. The land of the Greeks, Greece.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 193 For Minerua in þe speche of Grewe hatte Athena. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 37 In the reigne of men of Grewe. c1480Henryson Orpheus iv, The grete lordis of grewe.
B. adj. Greek.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) x. 39 Writen in Grew lettres. 1401Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 91 Heresie, that is Grw, is divisioun on Latyn. 1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 114 Lyk as in Latyne bene Grew termes sum. Ibid. iii. iv. 1 Strophades in Grew leid ar nemmit so, In the grete see standand ilis two. |