" "A euphemism, as I take it, for an elopement.

Euphony, eupepsia, euphemism, euthanasia are of his retiring kindred.

inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness &c (metaphor) 521. flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism^, euphemism.

That is the true method of eudaemonology; for all eudaemonology must begin by recognizing that its very name is a euphemism, and that to live happily only means to live less unhappilyto live a tolerable life.

The framers of the constitution disliked to tarnish the instrument by using the word slave, and adopted this euphemism.

My remarks, therefore, will possess only a qualified value, for the very word eudaemonology is a euphemism.

In the cool of the day, then (the phrase is an innocent euphemism), I climbed the hill, and after an hour or two on the plateau strolled back again, facing the sunset through a vista of moss-covered live-oaks and sweet gums.

It is possible that (to use the current euphemism) 'the necessity of her affairs may have obliged her to leave London and even England until creditors became less insistent.

* OFFICIAL EUPHEMISM.

One indignant Saint, with a talent for euphemism, was heard to say, "Brigham will have his spirit disembodied!" To the priests and Elders on the platform Elder Wardle was saying, "The trouble with him was he was crazy with fever.

The German General Staff have begun to disguise set-backs under the convenient euphemism that the situation has developed "according to expectation."

The Turks are beginning to show a gift for euphemism in disguising their reverses in the Caucasus, which shows that they have nothing to learn from their masters; Austria, badly mauled by the Serbians, addresses awful threats to Roumania; and the United States has issued a warning Note on neutral trading.

At the Front euphemism in describing hardship is mingled with circumlocution in official terminology.

Mr. Punch's correspondents at the Front have an incorrigible habit of euphemism and levity.

"Very well, then," went on the clear voice, "let us employ euphemism in terms and softness in methods.

"This figure [Euphemism] is often the same with the Periphrasis.

"This figure [Euphemism] is often the same as the Periphrasis."Adam and Gould cor.

They are quite unsuitable for civilian use, and are therefore being "reduced to produce"a euphemism for "scrapped.

Some such word as "Lais" would be better, or why not "Lady-bird," which combines the desired similarity with the new euphemism "home-bird," invented to help transform domestic service to a privilege and pleasure?

A needless euphemism affected by undertakers.

The former word is frequently used, even in laws and ordinances, as a euphemism for the latter.

Though still used, parbleu, likewise a euphemism for par Dieu, has largely replaced it.

therefore, redundant. VERTUCHOUX, written usually vertuchou, 'Bless me,' A euphemism like vertubleu, which is similarly a corruption of vertu (de) Dieu.

LA VOILÀ BIEN MALADE, 'She is pining with love for me.' PAR LA VENTREBLEU, Ventrebleu, written also ventrebieu, is a euphemism for ventre (de) Dieu.

A euphemism to disguise the word diable, as bleu for Dieu in many exclamations (Littré).