euphuize
verbEtymology From Euphu(es) + -ize, after the titular character in John Lyly’s didactic romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578); see euphuism for more.
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To write with euphuism.
- It is this artificial character of the style, as much as anything, that has led the critics into a unanimity of scorn, and made them declare (to euphuize the burden of their observations) that they would sooner be content to forego the author's wisdom than constrained to undergo his wit […]1894, Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Appearance of Waverly:
- Related terms
- euphuism, euphuistic