Hellenical

English

Adjective

Hellenical (comparative more Hellenical, superlative most Hellenical)

(rare, archaic) Hellenic.
- 1748, George Sale et al., An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time. […], volume XVI, London: […] T[homas] Osborne, […]; A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and J[ohn] Osborn, […], pages 53 and 70:
  If therefore the learned men above-mentioned mean only, that the Etruſcan language agrees with that firſt ſpoken in Greece, we readily ſubſcribe to their opinion; but, if they are to be underſtood of the later or Hellenical Greek, we muſt beg leave to diſſent from them. […] We ſay, more unmixed with ſtrangers than their neighbours; ſince the Etruſcans, in general, had had an intercourſe for ſome ages with the Romans and Hellenical Greeks, when Herodotus wrote his hiſtory.
- 1785, Thomas Astle, On the Radical Letters of the Pelasgians and Their Derivatives, London: […] J. Nichols, […], page 14:
  It is therefore eaſy to conceive, that the rude language of the ancient Pelaſgi was very different from the later or Hellenical Greek.
- 1817 January 30, “Half-Yearly Retrospect of French Literature”, in The Monthly Magazine; or, British Register, volume XLII, number 293, London: […] Richard Phillips, page 654, column 1:
  The critical notes: these cannot be analysed; we will, however, offer a specimen or two.—Republic of Sparta, ch. xiii. 9. the text, [Greek text]. Leunclave translates by juveni quoque ac delecto ad pugnam ineundam permittitur ut, &c. M. Gail gives a learned note to prove the nonsense of this version; but, in fact, it requires no great hellenical skill to shew it must be wrong.
- 1848 November 15, “[Literature.] The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin: James M‘Glashan.”, in Aberdeen Journal, and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland, number 5262, Aberdeen, page 6, column 1:
  The most illustrious of these was Lord Byron—a name not more esteemed in England, as that of one of the foremost of our poets, than it is in Greece, as that of one of the most devoted and enthusiastic of the “Franks,” to use a mediœval^[sic] name, who, fired by the old Hellenical associations, sought to re-establish the ancient glory of a fallen race.
- 1850, Epitome of Geographical Knowledge, Ancient and Modern. […], Dublin: […] [T]he Commissioners of National Education in Ire land, […], pages 73–74:
  IV. The Hellenical languages, the parent of which is the ancient Greek, from which comes the modern Greek, and, at an early period, the Latin.
- 1873, Robert Cox, Index to Passages of Scripture Adduced in Controversies Respecting the Sabbath and the Lord’s Day, Edinburgh: Maclachlan & Stewart; London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., page 82:
  The conclusion of the whole matter seems to be, that as the word κυριακός has not been found in any classical work, and occurs only twice in the New Testament, there is no possibility at present of being sure in what precise sense it is there used; though further research in classical or Hellenical writers may hereafter throw some light upon the question.
- 1914 March 1, “WK’s WINDJAMMING”, in Fort Worth Star-Telegram, volume XXXIII, number 46, Fort Worth, Tex., page eight:
  Col. Clar. Ousley, defying the Greek-letter Hellenical banqueters at Dal.
- 1923, The Hibbert Journal: A Quarterly Review of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy, volume XXII, page 702:
  Lucian in the second century may be considered as the last representative of Hellenical critical scepticism.
- 1928 November 20, “Gus Kaloss, Treasurer Dervas Company, Dies: Prominent Greek-American Rose from Humble Start to Foremost Business Man of City”, in The Scranton Times, 59th year, number 274, Scranton, Pa., page 3, column 2:
  He was a member of Hyde Park lodge, No. 339. Free and Accepted Masons; Keystone consistory, Irem temple, Tell Cedars of Lebanon, the Hellenical Orthodox Greek church and a director of the A. H. E. P. A. society.