Euterpean

Relating to Euterpe, or to an a ociation for the practice of music. Euthanasia, Euthanasy, n. [From Gr. eu, well, and tha natos, death.] Literally, an easy death. By political writers it is employed in various senses to indicate such peculiar theories as have the best tendency to up- Fig. 976.-EUTERPE. hold the state or disentangle it from difficulties. Thus, for instance, it is maintained that the i ue of inconvertible paper-money is the true euthanasia of public debts in modern countries.