| 释义 |
Euphuist|ˈjuːfjuːɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
An imitator of the style of expression characteristic of Lyly's Euphues; one whose writing or speech is characterized by euphuism.
1820Scott Monast. xv, There he found the Euphuist in the same elegant posture of abstruse calculation which he had exhibited on the preceding evening. 1828Macaulay John Dryden It is needless to mention Sidney and the whole tribe of Euphuists. 1871R. F. Weymouth Euph. 3 Shakespeare does not call Don Adriano a euphuist; nor is he such. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. 392 Elizabeth was the most affected and detestable of Euphuists. |