a. [f. EUPHON-Y + -IC; cf. Fr. euphonique.]
1. † a. Well sounding, agreeable to the ear; = EUPHONIOUS. Obs. b. Conformable to the laws of euphony.
1814. Scott, Wav., i. The most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 276. Under the more euphonic denomination of Arsenius.
1876. Birch, Monum. Hist. Egypt, 30. His name Ramessu was popularized by the Egyptians themselves into Sesu or the Greek Sesoosis, or Setesura, made euphonic as Sesostris.
2. Of or pertaining to euphony.
1816. J. Gilchrist, Philos. Etym., p. xviii. The consonants, have been as in a kind of euphonic spite gnawed down into musical notes.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., vii. 128. Purely euphonic influences.
1879. F. Harrison, Choice of Bks., etc. (1886), 28, note. To English hexameters there are euphonic obstacles which seem to be insuperable.
3. as sb. in pl. Euphonious expressions. nonce-use (ironical).
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., I. v. 191. It was curious to hear him … urge on his horses with the other customary euphonics of his tribe.
