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English Alternative forms en greek it, en Greeke it, en greeke it Verb * en obsolete To act like a Greek, especially the Ancient Greeks. 79 [Drinking...] sometimes as many together as there were letters contained in the names of their mistresses... Insomuch that those were prouerbially said to greeke it that quaft in that fashion. en obsolete To study the Ancient Greek language. en 1799 Edward Dubois A Piece of Family Biography https://books.google.fr/books?id=v60BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA20 II 20 Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. "As to dead languages," replied the ſchoolmafter, "I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlackI can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here thanthan" Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, "that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence." References † Greek v 81158 2021 en Acting