euphrasy
Americannoun
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euphrasies
plural
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)
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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 Madison J. Cawein
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 May Kendall
The words "euphrasy and rue" kept ringing in his brain, coming over and over with an awful mingling of chime and toll.
From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
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 T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
The only trace of affectation, indeed, is in a certain dabbling, in earlier work, with names of jewels such as "chrysoprase," and plants such as "euphrasy" and "agrimony."
From Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson
That chrism he laid upon his eyes, And lips, and heart, for euphrasies, That he might see, feel, sing, perdie, The simple things that are the wise.
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
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