Also 8 euphragia. [L. form of next.]
1. Bot. = EUPHRASY 1.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Euphragia or Euphrasia, the Herb Eye-bright.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., vi. 123. The Euphrasia, or eye-bright, was, and is, supposed to be good for the eyes.
2. In etymological sense: Cheerfulness.
1882. trans. Ribot’s Dis. Memory, II. 109. An organic lesion … may transform the cœnasthesis … producing undue joyousness … of which the most striking example is seen in the euphrasia of the dying.
