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G R E 
I think if men, which in thefe places live, 
Durft look in themfelves, and themfelves retrieve, 
They would like ftrangers, greet themfelves. Donne . 
To addrefs in whatever manner : 
Now, Thomas Mowbray, do 1 turn to thee, 
And mark my greeting well ; for what I fpeak, 
My body fhall make good. Skakefpeare. 
To falute in kindnefs or refpeCt.—My lord, the mayor 
of London comes to greet you. Skakefpeare. 
The fea’s our own : and now all nations greet, 
With bending fails, each veffel of our fleet. Waller. 
To congratulate: 
His lady, feeing all that channel from far, 
Approacht in hafte to greet his viCtorie. Spenfer. 
To pay compliments at a diftance : 
The king’s a-bed, 
And fent great largefs to your officers ; 
This diamond he greets your wife withal, 
By the name of mod kind hoftefs. Skakefpeare. 
To meet, as thofe do who go to pay congratulations: 
Your hafte is now urg’d on you. 
--We will greet the time. Skakefpeare. 
To GREET, v.n. To meet and falute : 
Such was that face on which I dwelt with joy, , 
Ere Greece affembled ftemm’d the tides to Troy ; 
But parting then for that detefted ftrore, 
Our eyes, unhappy ! never greeted more. Pope. 
[From gjaeran, Sax.] To wail.—Tell me, good Hob- 
binoll, what gars thee greet. Spenfer's April. 
GREET'ER,/. He who greets. 
GREETING, f. Salutation at meeting, or compli¬ 
ments at a diftance : 
I from him 
Give you all greetings, that a king, as friend, 
Can fend^iis brother. Skakefpeare. 
GREEZE,/. [otherwife written greece: fee Greece, 
orGRiEZE, otGriCE ; ivom degrees.} A flight of fteps; 
a ftep. 
GREF'FEINSTAIN, a town of Germany, in the 
. archduchy of Auftria, fituated on the Danube: fix 
miles north-weft of Klofter Neuberg. 
GRE'GAL, adj. igrex, gregis, Lat.] Belonging to a 
flock. 
GREGA'RIOUS, adj. Igregarius, Lat.] Going in 
’ flocks or herds, like ftieep or partridges.—No birds of 
prey are gregarious. Ray. 
GREG'GIAj f. in botany. See Myrtus. 
GRE'GOIE, or Greboue, a fmall iflarrd of Africa, 
in the river Jaquin, about a league from the fea, on the 
Gold Coaft, where the European nations have factories. 
GREGO'RIAN, f [at one time a cant word for] 
A perriwig.—He cannot be a cuckold, that wears a Gre¬ 
gorian ; for a perriwig cannot fit fuch a head. Overbury. 
GREGO'RI AN CALENDAR, or the common Al¬ 
manac, fo called from pope Gregory XIII. being the 
new or reformed calendar, fhewing the new and full 
moons, with the time of Eafter, and the other move- 
able feafts depending upon it, by means of epaCts dif- 
pofed through the feveral months of the Gregorian year. 
Gregorian Epoch, the epoch or time from which 
the Gregorian calendar, or computation, took place. 
This began in the year 1582 ; fo that the year 1808 is 
the 226th of this epoch. 
Gregorian Telescope, a particular fort of tele- 
fcope, invented by Mr. James Gregory. See Tele¬ 
scope. 
Gregorian Year, the new ftyle, introduced upon 
the reformation of the calendar, by pope Gregory XI 11 . 
in the year 1582, and from whom it took its name. See 
the article Chronology, vol. iv. p. 535. 
G R E 
GREGO'RIO de PUERTO VIE'JO, a diftnCt and 
town of South America, in the audience of Quito, and 
jurifdiCtion of Guayaquil. 
GREG'ORY, [ygsyogioj, Gr. watchful.] A proper 
name of men. 
GREG'ORY, furnamed the Great, dignified in 
the Romifh calendar with the title of faint, a native of 
Rome, and the firft pope of that name. He difeovered 
fuch abilities, integrity, and prudence, in the exercife 
of different fenatorial employments, that the emperor 
Juftin the younger appointed him governor of Rome. 
But he foon became difgufted with the world, and de¬ 
termined to embrace the religious life. Under the in¬ 
fluence of this difpofition, he devoted .the greateft part 
of his vaft property to the foundation of monafteries, in 
conformity with the prevalent fuperftition of the times, 
and to charitable ufes. He founded fix monafteries in 
Sicily, and one at Rome. He was not permitted, how¬ 
ever, to feclude himfelf from the world : Pelagius II. 
ordained him a deacon, and fent him as his nuncio to 
the imperial court of Conftantinople. ln'583 he was re¬ 
called to Rome, and employed in the capacity of fecre- 
tary to pope Pelagius; upon whole death, in 590, Gre¬ 
gory was immediately chofen his fucceffor, and made 
pope of Rome. Among the numerous amiable qualities 
which diftinguilhed him in the exercife of this dignified 
authority, a fincere regard for virtue and religion, and 
a ftriCt adherence to impartial and equal juftice, were 
none of the leaft confpicuous. He manifefted the molt 
unbounded charity in relieving the poor, and redeem¬ 
ing great numbers of captives. In the year 596, he em¬ 
barked in an undertaking on which he had for fome 
time been intent, for the purpofe of converting the 
Saxons in Britain to the Chriftian faith. Several cir- 
cumllances concurred at the time, to favour this defign. 
Ethelbert king of Kent, and the moft confiderable of the 
Anglo-Saxon monarchs in Britain, had married Bertha, 
daughter of Cherebert king of Paris, who was a Chrif¬ 
tian, and allowed the free exercife of her religion. This 
princefs, partly by her own influence, and partly by 
the pious efforts of the clergy who had followed her 
into Britain, gradually formed in the mind of Ethelbert 
a ftro.ng inclination to the Chriftian religion. While the 
king was in this difpofition, Gregory fent Auguftin, ac¬ 
companied with forty monks, into this ifland, in order 
to bring to perfection what the queen had fo happily 
begun. In fimilar endeavours for the extenfion of the 
Chriftian faith, he was zealoufly engaged till the day 
of his death, which took place in March, 1604, after he 
had prefided over the Roman church near fourteen 
years, and when he was about fixty years of age. 
Pope Gregory I. diftinguilhed himfelf by inventing 
new offices for the fervice df the church, and the facra- 
ments, in which he preferibed a vaft number of rites 
and ceremonies that were unknown before ; and he took 
great pains in reforming the pfalmody of the church', 
inftituting an academy of chorifters, whom he himfelf 
taught to chant, and for whofe ufe he compofed that 
muftc which goes by his name. It is to him, likewife, 
that we owe the invention of exprefling mufical founds 
by the feven firft letters of the alphabet. He left more 
writings behind him than any other pope from the foun¬ 
dation of the fee of Rome to the prefent times. They 
confift of twelve books of Letters, amounting to eight 
hundred and forty in number; A Comment on the Book 
of Job, in thirty-fix books, commonly called Gregory’s 
Morals on Job, and confifting rather of a collection of 
moral principles, than an expofition of the text; A Paf- 
toral, or a Treatife on the Duties of a Paftor; Twenty- 
two Homilies on the Prophet Ezekiel ; Forty Homilies 
on the Gofpels; and four books of Dialogues. The 
above are his only genuine productions, at leaft in the 
form in which they have reached modern times. As to 
his Sacramentarium, Antiphonarium , and BenediBionarium, 
they have been fo curtailed in fome places, and inter¬ 
polated 
