G R E 
that was in the treafury, and of having exercifed Iiis in¬ 
fluence to the prejudice and injury of individual mem¬ 
bers on account of tlieir adhering to the caufe of the 
parliament; and the refult was his ejedlment both from 
Ids profelforflup and fellowfldp, and his banifliment from 
the univerfity. After his departure, fomc chefts in 
which he had packed up his papers, See, were broken 
open by'the foldiers, and his manuferipts taken out, 
part of %vhich were loft, and the reft recovered by means 
of his friend Mr. Selden. V/hen Mr. Greaves was aware 
that it would be impoflible for him to keep his profef- 
forlhip, his regard for the interefts of fcience led him 
to form a plan for introducing a worthy and able fuc- 
celfor; which he was enabled to accompliflr by means 
of lir John Trevor^who procured tltat appointment for 
Mr. Seth Ward, afterwards bifliop of Salilbury. This 
proved a fortunate circumftance for Mr. Greaves, as 
his fucceilbr had intereft to procure for him the full ar¬ 
rears of his falary, amounting to five hundred pounds. 
After his banifliment from Oxford, Mr. Greaves re¬ 
tired to London, where he married, and, living upon his 
patrimony, devoted his time to literary puriuits. He 
now publiftied Bina Tabulee Geographic^, una Naffir Eddini 
PerftB, altera Uiug Beigi Tartari, Commentariis ex Abulfeda 
eliifque Arabum Geographis illujirata, 164S, 4to. This was 
followed by Elementa Lingua: Perjica, 4to. to which the 
author fubjoined Anonymus Perfa de Siglis Arabum & Per- 
farum AJironomicis. At the fame time he was engaged, in 
cc>ncert with Mr. William Seaman, author of a Turkifti 
Grammar, in preparing a Turkifti Diftionary ; but which 
was nev<;r finiftied. In 1650 he publiftied, in quarto, 
his Epocka celebriores, AJironomicis, Hijloricis, Chronologis, 
Ckataiorum, Syrogracorum, Arabum, Perfarum, Chorafiniorum, 
vjuata, ex Traditione Ulug Beigi, Arabice & Laiinc, cum Com¬ 
mentariis', which were found of fingular fervice in cor. 
refiling a vaft number of errors in our books of chrono¬ 
logy. In the fame year he produced Chorafmia & Mazaa- 
ralnahra, hoc ejl Regionum extra Flitvium Oxum Deferiptio, ex 
Tabulis Abulfeda Ifmaelis Principis Hamah, 4to. and A De- 
I'cription of the Grand Signior’s Seraglio, or Turkifti 
Emperor’s Court, written by Mr. Robert Withers, 8vo. 
which had been already printed in Purchas’s Pilgrims, 
of which circumftance it appears that Mr. Greaves w'as 
not apprifed- In 1652 he publiftied Ajlronomica quadam 
ex Traditione Shah Cholgii Perfa, una cum Hypothefibus Plane- 
tarum: item excerpta quadam ex Alfergani Elementis AJlrono- 
micis, & AH Kujligii de Terra Magnitudine & Spkararum 
Ccehfiurn a Terra Dijlantiis, cum Interpretatione Latina, 410. 
to which he prefixed A ftiort Hiftory of the Rile and 
Progrefs of Aftronomy among the Arabians, and fub- 
joiiied liis Bina Tabula, already mentioned. He had 
prepared feveral other works for the prefs, and was 
meditating more, when he was attacked by a diforder 
that proved fatal to him, towards the latter end of the 
year laft mentioned, when he was in the fiftieth year of 
his age. Of his learning, ingenuity, diligence, and per- 
feverance in any defign in which he embarked, iiis works 
afford abundant evidence. He was much efteemed by 
many ofthemoft eminent of his contemporaries, both 
at home and abroad; fteady in his principles, and in his 
friendftiips*; and his death was defervedly lamented, as 
occafioning a real lofs to the interefts of literature and 
ufeful knowledge. 
GRESEj/i in ornithology. See CoLYMqaJs, vol. iv. 
p.840. * 
GRE'BENSTETN, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and principality of Keffe Caflel : 
twelve miles north-w'eft of Calfel, and fixteen north- 
iiorth-eaft ofNaumberg. Lat. 51. 16. N. Ion. 26.46. E. 
Ferro. 
GRE'BIN, a town of Prufiia, in Pomerelia: fix miles 
fauth-eaft of Dantzig., 
GRE'ChA, [Latin.] Greece. Datz.viii.21. Zac/i.ix.1.3. 
, GRE'CIAN, adj. Belonging to Greece 5 produced in 
Greece. 
G R E SG7 
'GRE'CIAN,yi A native of Greece; one fkillcd in 
the Greek language. 
GRE'CISM, y. \_gracfmus, 'Ld.t.'] An idiom of the 
Greek language.—A violent Grecifm, that would ftartle 
a Roman at the reading of it, founds more natural to 
us. Addifon. 
GRE'COURT (John-Baptift Jofeph Villart de), a 
French poet, born at Tours in 1683. He was brought 
up to the church, and had a canonry in the church of 
St. Martin, in his native city, when he was only about 
fourteen. He firft made hiriifelf known as a preacher-; 
but his fermons were ratlrer fatirical than moral, and in 
one of them he is faid to have lampooned moft of the 
ladies of Tours. Quitting an occupation for which he 
was fo little fitted, he became a man of the world, and 
made his way into company by his convivial talents, and 
his faculty of writing burlefque and licentious verfes. 
He tyas patronifed by the marftial duke d’Etrees, who 
often carried him to his feat, which the poet called his 
earthly paradife. He read in company his verfes, which 
received great advantage from his admirable powers of 
recitation. His converfation abounded v/ith pleafant 
fallies and farcafms, with which he pafied through a 
joyous life, which clofed in 1743. The writings of the 
abbe Grecourt were Tales, Epigrams, Songs, Fables, 
and light pieces, not rifing above mediocrity in the 
poetry, but lively and pleafant, and often indecent. His 
poem entitled Philotanus had prodigious fuccefs, which 
is imputed to its fubjefit rath.er than its.merit. It is a 
fatirical hiftory of the bull Unigenitus, in burlefque 
verfes, fome of which are extremely humourous. 
GRE'DING, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Franconia, and biftiopric of Aidiftat : thirteen miles 
north-eaft of Aichftat. 
GREE, f. [gre, Fr. probably from gratia, Lat.] 
Good vyjll; favour ; good grace ; 
And falling her before on lowly knee. 
To her makes prefent of his fervice leen, 
Which file accepts with thanks and goodly Spenfer, 
GREE,yi in law, fatisfafilion for an offence com¬ 
mitted or injury done. And where it is faid in our fta- 
tutes, that judgment fliall be put in tufpence till gree 
is made to the king of his debt ; it is taken for fatisfac- 
tion. Stats, i Rich. II. c. 13. 25 Edw. III. c. 19. 
GREECE, y. [corrupted from degrees. It is written 
likewife freeze or ^n'ce.] A fligiit of fteps. Obfolete .— 
After the proceflion, the king himfelf remaining feated 
in the quire, the lord archbiftiop, upon grcece of the 
quire, made a long oration. Bacon. 
Everygreece of fortune 
Is fmother’d by that below. Shakejpeare. 
GREECE, the moft celebrated country of Europe^ 
dignified by clallical writers with the epithets of Mo¬ 
ther of the Arts ;—the Luntinary of Science the 
Fountain of Literature. 
Ancient Greece comprehended that country which at 
prefent conftitutes the Ibuthern part of I'urkey in Eu¬ 
rope. It was bounded on the eaft by the ^gean Sea, 
now called the Archipelago^, on the louth by the Cretan. 
Sea; on the weft by the Ionian Sea, or Adriatic Gulf; 
and on the north by Illyria and Thrace. Its length,, 
from north to fouth, was about three hundred and fifty 
miles ; and its breadth, at a medium, might be reckoned 
about two hundred and fifty, miles ; fituated nearly in 
the middle of tiie northern temperate zone. It may be 
properly diftinguilhed into fix- principal divifions. Of 
thefe the molt northern was Macedonia:-,, immediately 
fouth of Macedonia lay TheJJ’aly ; Epirus ftretched along 
the coaft of the Ionian Sea, and was tiie molt wefteru 
divilion ; Aehaia, or Greece property’ fo called, occu¬ 
pied the middle fpace : and the moft foiuhern divilion 
was Peloponnejus, known at prefent by the name of the 
Morca, which, as the ancient name imports, formed a 
peninfula. 
