Definition of Euphemised

1. Verb. (past of euphemise) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Euphemised

1. euphemise [v] - See also: euphemise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Euphemised

eupaverin
eupepsia
eupepsias
eupepsies
eupepsy
eupeptic
eupeptide
eupeptide bond
eupeptides
euphane
euphausid
euphausids
euphausiid
euphausiids
euphemise
euphemised (current term)
euphemises
euphemising
euphemism
euphemisms
euphemist
euphemistic
euphemistical
euphemistically
euphemists
euphemize
euphemized
euphemizer
euphemizers
euphemizes

Literary usage of Euphemised

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1878)
"Besides, all allusions to so prevalent a practice as " cattle-lifting " were always euphemised in the mouth of a Highlander. ..."

2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Parish Register Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"The fact, again, that some of our English dragons, like those of Sockburn or Wantley, where the dragon has been euphemised into a roguish attorney, ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1896)
"... off from the Continent by that “streak of silver sea” which French journalism now presents to the world in the euphemised version “le ruban d'argent. ..."

4. English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten (1890)
"174 (letters to Southey), as quoted by Mr. Hartland in Folk-Lore, i. 207-8. I have christened the anonymous midwife and euphemised her profession. ..."

5. Garrick and His Circle by Florence Mary Wilson Parsons (1906)
"... Carrington (a weak creature, now the Reverend, who, not long afterwards, died of drink—'too careless of his constitution' as people euphemised it then) ..."

6. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"In 1880 the only survival was Naked Boy Court, on the north side of Ludgate Hill, and that was euphemised into Boy Court. Nando's, a coffee-house in FLEET ..."

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