euphuistic

• “This "high fantastical" style, ever since called euphuistic, created a sensation.”

  Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived

• “That decision was also in keeping with the Hebrew, but it was a sharp turn away from the fad of "euphuistic" or ornate, purple prose that thrived more than a decade before the publication of the KJV in 1611.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Good Book's Great Prose Lessons

• “When you hear to care for your copyright, you barrens euphuistic for the moment and bread pursuing violators – for the moment and bread you could be using to enlighten as opposed to of on guard case.”

  The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do | Write to Done

• “Lady Bath hinted to Sir Richard, not without reason, that the poet, in trying to exalt both parties, had very sufficiently snubbed both, and intimated that it was “hardly safe for country wits to attempt that euphuistic, antithetical, and delicately conceited vein, whose proper fountain was in Whitehall.””

  Westward Ho!

• “In Egypt and Mosul, Sulaymani (the common name for an Afghan) is used to signify “poison”; but I know not whether it be merely euphuistic or confined to some species.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “Germans say, that could utter things of daily life without euphuistic windings, without fear of ridicule for things of home expressed in home-words.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861

• “One of the extant versions of the _Foster-brothers 'Story_ is remarkable for its patches of euphuistic rhetoric, which often appear suddenly in the course of plain, straightforward narrative.”

  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature

• “Renaissance literary movement, when prose, after vaguely classic models, was held worth cultivating on its own account; and is in some degree a tempered afterglow of the crude brilliance of euphuistic balance and alliteration.”

  The Principles of English Versification

• “The verse still retains a smack of the Elizabethan diction -- not the Shakespeare magic, indeed, but the euphuistic, antithetical, fantastic balance of phrases:”

  Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland

• “The emperor, who bears the various euphuistic titles of the “Brother of the Sun and Moon.””

  The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880

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