euphuistic, a.
(juːfjuːˈɪstɪk)
[f. prec. + -ic.]
Tending to or resembling euphuism; of the nature of euphuism; characterized by euphuism. Chiefly in inaccurate sense: Abounding in ‘highflown’ or affectedly refined expression.
| 1828 Carlyle Goethe's Helena Misc. Ess. (1888) I. 157 If indeed it is not a little euphuistic. 1842 Lytton Zanoni 21 Ears grown nice and euphuistic in the..dulcet melodies of the day. 1863 Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. xvii. 448 He was intended to be a satire upon some euphuistic and bombastious characters..found in other plays of his time. 1871 R. F. Weymouth Euph. 3 The most important element by far in the euphuistic style is antithesis. 1876 E. A. Abbott Bacon in Contemp. Rev. June 154 The..antithetical euphuistic prose of Essex. |
So euphuˈistical a. = prec. euphuˈistically adv.
| 1823 Blackw. Mag. XIV. 521 Making an agreeable and euphuistical alliteration. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 5 A poem, most euphuistically entitled The Cherubic Wanderer. 1874 Motley Barneveld II. xxi. 391 The Advocate had, as it was euphuistically expressed, been looking towards the enemy. |