a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Full of or characterized by euphony; pleasing to the ear. (Often used ironically.)
1774. Joel Collier [J. L. Bicknell], Mus. Trav. (1775), 5. I chose to change my name from Collier to Coglioni or Collioni, as more euphonious.
1797. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., III. 337. Those hexameters are most euphonious whose feet are interwoven.
1836. W. Irving, Astoria, II. 68. Restoring the Indian names, wherever significant and euphonious.
1865. Reader, 26 Aug., 224/2. Is it grammatical, even if it were euphonious, to say [etc.].
1872. Jenkinson, Guide Eng. Lakes (1879), 189. A lane, bearing the euphonious cognomen of Spooney Green.
Hence Euphoniously adv., in a euphonious manner, with pleasant sounds.
1836. Jas. Grant, Recoll. Ho. Lords, xv. 368. His language sounds most euphoniously in your ears.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xii. 125. Thus euphoniously solicited, the Upernaviks sat down and ate.
1867. Mill, Subj. Women (1869), 22. They euphoniously paraphrase it.
