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euphemious, a. rare.|juːˈfiːmɪəs|
[f. Gr. εὔϕηµ-ος fair of speech, also well reputed (f. εὐ- eu- + ϕήµη speaking, fame) + -ious.]
a. = euphemistic.
b. That has a reputable name.
1867L. Campbell tr. Plato's Polit. Introd. 50 He may have recourse to the more ‘euphemious’ plan of emigration.
Hence euˈphemiously adv. = euphemistically.
1853Fraser's Mag. XLVII. 683 The ‘poets’ had ‘mounted their horse’, as getting drunk was euphemiously called by that polite people. 1884B. Nicholson in Athenæum 28 June 824/3 It is euphemiously said to be a ‘change of three letters’. |