euphuistic

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Chapman makes Homer a fanciful, euphuistic, obscure, and garrulous Elizabethan, but Chapman has fire.

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  1. Characterized by euphuism; of or pertaining to the euphuists: as, euphuistic pronunciation. The all-seeing poet laughs rather at the pedantic school-master than at the fantastic knight; and the euphuistic pronunciation which he makes Holofernes so malignantly criticise was most probably his own and that of the generality of his educated contemporaries. Craik, Hist. Eng. Lang., I. 473. The euphuistic style was an exaggeration of the “Italianating” taste which had begun with the revival of our poetical literature in the days of Henry VIII., but to which Lyly was the first to give full expression in prose. A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., I. 157.

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  • The verse still retains a smack of the Elizabethan diction--not the Shakespeare magic, indeed, but the euphuistic, antithetical, fantastic balance of phrases To Lundy which in Sabrin's mouth doth stand Carried with hope (still hoping to find ease Imagining it were his native land England itself; Severn, the narrow seas With this conceit, poor soul, himself doth please And sith his rule is over-ruled by men On birds and beasts he'll king it once again Devon took its unhappy share in the Wars of the Roses, and Perkin Warbeck besieged Exeter in 1497, but unsuccessfully, like most other exploits of that unlucky adventurer. —  Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff ; Moorland
  • Under "femme du demi-monde" we find the origin of the phrase as created by A. Dumas fils: "Femme née dans un monde distingué, dont elle conserve les maničres sans en respecter les lois" ("a woman belonging by birth to the upper class, the manners of which she retains, without respecting its laws"); but the present meaning is quite different from this, the phrase being now used as a euphuistic designation of a disreputable woman. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875
  • Chapman makes Homer a fanciful, euphuistic, obscure, and garrulous Elizabethan, but Chapman has fire. —  Essays in Little
  • The dialogue is less euphuistic, and therefore much more effective. —  John Lyly
  • I think _Castalia_ much too euphuistic, and though I shouldn't like the book to be called simply still I have a great prejudice against very florid titles for such gatherings. —  Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 

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