Path. Also 8 in Lat. form euphoria. [ad. Gr. εὐφορία, f. εὔφορος well-bearing, f. εὖ well + φέρειν to bear.]
† 1. (See quot.) Obs.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIX. 674/1. But the most certain rule for the quantity [of Mineral waters] is the Euphory or well-bearing [of the Patient].
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Euphoria, the well bearing of the Operation of a Medicine, i.e. when the Patient finds himself eas’d or reliev’d by it.
2. ‘A word used to express well-being, or the perfect ease and comfort of healthy persons, especially when the sensation occurs in a sick person’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1727–51. in Chambers, Cycl.
Hence Euphoric a., pertaining to, characteristic of, or characterized by euphory.
1888. Amer. Jrnl. Psychol., I. 361. Dr. Battaglia produced [by hashish] a great variety of symptoms with great uniformity, but never the commonly reported euphoric apathy.
