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单词 euphues
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Euphuesn.

/ˈjuːfjuːiːz/
Etymology: Greek εὐϕυής well-endowed by nature, < εὐ- (see eu- comb. form) + ϕυή growth, < ϕύειν to produce, in passive to grow. The adoption of this word by Lyly as the name of a personage of fiction was suggested by the passage of Ascham quoted below:a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 7v Εὐϕυὴς Is he, that is apte by goodnes of witte, and appliable by readines of will, to learning, hauing all other qualities of the minde and partes of the bodie, that must an other day serue learning, not trobled, mangled, and halfed, but [etc.].
The name of the chief character in John Lyly's two works, Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1578), and Euphues and his England (1580).
a. The book bearing that name.
ΚΠ
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Honest Mans Fortune v. iii, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Xxxxx3/2 The courtier..h'as nothing in him but a piece of Euphues, And twenty dozen of twelvepenny riband.
b. to speak Euphues: to talk the dialect of ‘Euphues’, to ‘parley Euphuism’ (see euphuism n.). Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > use ornate language [verb (intransitive)] > Euphuize
Euphuize1604
to speak Euphues1614
1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. E8v Hee..speakes Euphues [printed Ephues; 1614 (3rd impr.) Euphues] not so gracefully as heartily.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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