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Definition of Euphuistic

Euphuistic
Euphuistic Eu`phu*is"tic, a. Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.

Meaning of Euphuistic from wikipedia

- the distinctive rhetorical devices on which the style was based. The eup****stic sentence followed principles of balance and antithesis to their extremes...
- Black Knight and the Faerie Knight. The style has been characterized as eup****stic romance. Part I begins with the story of Tom's birth: he is the product...
- Speaking Latin) and Aguja de navegar cultos (Comp**** for Navigating among Eup****stic Reefs). Both works were written with the purpose of attacking culteranismo...
- Plaiers, Jesters and such like Caterpillars of the Commonwealth (1579). The eup****stic style of this pamphlet and its ostentatious display of learning were in...
- in certain m****cripts of Geoffrey Chaucer's works), is written in the eup****stic manner, but decidedly attractive both by its plot and by the situations...
- Grinvile (1595), reprinted (1871) by Professor E. Arber, a prolix and eup****stic poem in eight-lined stanzas on Sir Richard Grenville; 1595: The Poem of...
- Gentleman (c. 1608?). Although Deloney was familiar with the elaborate eup****stic prose of John Lyly and his successors, and was capable of imitating it...
- pupil of John Florio was Stephen Gosson. Both Gosson and Lyly adopted the Eup****stic style and were saturated in Italian reading through John Florio's lessons...
- actors in the same period. The playwright John Lyly earned fame when his "Eup****stic" plays were acted at Court by the Children of Paul's in the 1260. The...
- exquisitely characterized, written in a pleasingly mannered (if not downright eup****stic) prose—one can in the end say no more than that about it, and that much...