euphrasy
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of euphrasy
1425–75; late Middle English eufrasie < Medieval Latin eufrasia < Greek euphrasía cheerfulness, gladness (Compare euphraínein to cheer, be glad)
Example Sentences
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Amid all herbes that do grow, and are of greatest comfort and solace to mankind," so ran the passage, "a foremost place hath the euphrasy.
From The Manor House School by Dixon, Arthur A.
Under the name of euphrasy it formerly enjoyed a great reputation in diseases of the eyes.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various
And Thomson says:— "If she, whom I implore, Urania, deign With euphrasy to purge away the mists, Which, humid, dim the mirror of the mind."
From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
Was it some elfin euphrasy That purged his spirit so that there Blue harebells, by those ways that be, Seemed summoning to prayer?
From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.
On the next morning any one whose eyes were purged with euphrasy and rue might have observed an owl and a fairy queen fluttering in the smoky air above Burlington House.
From 'That Very Mab' by Kendall, May
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