Definition of "euge"

euge

/ˈjuːd͡ʒi/

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete, rare) applause
  Quotations
  No such good news to heaven as this; not only approbation, but joy in heaven over one such convert prodigal: the music that Pythagoras talks of in the orbs, was that of the minstrels which our Saviour mentions at the return of that prodigal, to solemnize the euge's, the passionate welcomes of heaven poured out on penitents.
  a. 1606, Henry Hammond, God is the God of Bethel
  Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!
  1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Heinrichs