the worthless word for the day is: euphuistic
[After Euphues, in Euphues, the Anatomy of Wit by
John Lyly; from Gk euphues, shapely] /YU fyu IS tic/
of the nature of or characterized by euphuism
(high-flown diction); hence, euphuistically
"Pistol, however, is not an original invention of
Shakespeare's; but he was intended to be a satire
upon some euphuistic and bombastious characters that
are to found in other plays of his time.."
- Charles C. Clarke, Shakespeare Characters (1863)
"As for Gongora, that puerile asshole, that
proparoxytonic, euphistic [sic] versifier, that
dabbler in vortices, tricliniums, promptuaria, and
vacillating Icaruses, that shadow on the sun and
eructation of the wind... he is the last thing that
worries me now."
- Arturo Perez-Reverte, Purity of Blood
(trans. by Margaret Peden) (2006)
"A poem, most euphuistically entitled The Cherubic
Wanderer."
- Robert A. Vaughan, Hours with the mystics (1860)
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
