[f. as prec. + -IST.] An imitator of the style of expression characteristic of Lyly’s Euphues; one whose writing or speech is characterized by EUPHUISM.
1820. Scott, Monast., II. 64. There he found the Euphuist in the same elegant posture of abstruse calculation which he had exhibited on the preceding evening.
1828. Macaulay, John Dryden, in Edinb. Rev., Jan., 15. It is needless to mention Sidney and the whole tribe of Euphuists.
1871. R. F. Weymouth, Euph., 3. Shakespeare does not call Don Adriano a euphuist; nor is he such.
1874. Green, Short Hist., vii. 392. Elizabeth was the most affected and detestable of Euphuists.
