Now rare. [Anglicized form of EUTHANASIA. Cf. Fr. euthanasie.] = EUTHANASIA 1; also fig.
1633. Earl Manch., Al Mondo (1636), 164. Augustus Cæsar … so often as he heard of a man that had a quicke passage, with little sense of paine, he wished for himselfe that Euthanasie.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Underwoods, Eupheme, ix. Dare I profane so irreligious be, To greet or grieue her soft euthanasy.
1736. in Bailey (folio).
1775. in Ash.
1821. De Quincey, Confess. (1862), 240. The practice … tends to a natural euthanasy.
1862. Syd. Dobell, Love. The swift euthanasy of her last change.
