[Eumenides] (i. e. the Well-meaning), a name given to the [Erinnyes] (q. v.) or Furies, from a wholesome and prudent dread of calling them by their true name.
[Eumolpus], the founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries, alleged to have been a priest of Demeter or Ceres.
[Eunomians], an ultra-Arian sect of the 4th century, which soon dwindled away after breaking from the orthodox Church; called after [Eunomius] (q. v.).
[Eunomius], an Arian divine, born in Cappadocia; head of a sect who maintained that the Father alone was God, that the Son was generated from Him, and the Spirit from the Son; was bishop of Cyzicum, a post he by-and-by resigned; d. 394.
[Eupatoria] (13), a Russian town on the Crimean coast, in the government of Taurida, 40 m. NW. of Simferopol; has a fine Tartar mosque, and does a large export trade in hides and cereals; during the Crimean War was an important military centre of the Allies.
[Euphemism], is in speech or writing the avoiding of an unpleasant or indelicate word or expression by the use of one which is less direct, and which calls up a less disagreeable image in the mind. Thus for "he died" is substituted "he fell asleep," or "he is gathered to his fathers"; thus the Greeks called the "Furies" the "Eumenides," "the benign goddesses," just as country people used to call elves and fairies "the good folk neighbours."
[Euphrates], a river in West Asia, formed by the junction of two Armenian streams; flows SE. to Kurnah, where it is joined by the Tigris. The combined waters—named the Shat-el-Arab—flow into the Persian Gulf; is 1700 m. long, and navigable for 1100 m.
[Euphrosyne], the cheerful one, or life in the exuberance of joy, one of the three Graces. See [Graces].
[Euphuism], an affected bombastic style of language, so called from "Euphues," a work of Sir John Lyly's written in that style.
[Eure] (349), a dep. of France, in Normandy, so called from the river Eure which traverses it.