euphuism (ufuizm)

[ All our Ladies were then his [Lyly's] Scholars; and that Beauty in Court which could not Parley Eupheisme was as little regarded as She which now there speaks not French. Edward Blount , in Lyly's Euphues, Epist. to Reader. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-0790.png:[merged small][merged small][subsumed][ocr errors] of more centuries than one. A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 156. =Syn. This word is sometimes confounded with euphe mism and euphony. It has nothing to do with either.