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EUPHUIST — [Noun] A writer or speaker characterized by euphuism, the affected, extravagantly ornate prose style that flourished in the late 16th century. From Euphues, the name of the titular character in John Lyly's prose romance Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578), + the English suffix -ist (denoting an adherent or practitioner). The name Euphues is from the Ancient Greek εὐφυής (euphuḗs, "graceful, witty"). Unlike a stylist, who may polish language to varied ends, or a plain speaker, who seeks unvarnished clarity, the euphuist is a practitioner of a specific, baroque liturgy: a style built on relentless antithesis, abstruse classical allusions, and elaborate similes drawn from unnatural natural history. He is the architect of sentences balanced to the point of paralysis, the weaver of similes comparing tears to orient pearl, the courtier whose every utterance is a meticulously arranged still life of rhetoric—a testament to the human compulsion to improve upon nature, even at the cost of suffocating it.