flourish
verb intransitive[L. floresco, from floreo. The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, L. ploro.]
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To thrive; to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant. The beech and the maple flourish best in a deep, rich and moist loam.
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To be prosperous; to increase in wealth or honor. Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Psalm 92:7.
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To grow in grace and in good works; to abound in the consolations of religion. The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree. Psalm 92:12.
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To be in a prosperous state; to grow or be augmented. We say agriculture flourishes, commerce flourishes, manufactures flourish.
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To use florid language; to make a display of figures and lofty expressions; to be copious and flowery. They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
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To make bold strokes in writing; to make large and irregular lines; as, to flourish with the pen.
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To move or play in bold and irregular figures. Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking, flourished o’re his head.
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In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form; as, to flourish on an organ or violin.
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To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
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To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with any thing showy.
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To spread out; to enlarge into figures.
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To move in bold or irregular figures; to move in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish; as, to flourish a sword.
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To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
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To adorn; to embellish.
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To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke. The day book and inventory book shall be flourished.
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Beauty; showy splendor. The flourish of his sober youth.
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Ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as a flourish of rhetoric; a flourish of wit. He lards with flourishes his long harangue./ .
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Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver; as the flourishes about a great letter.
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A brandishing; the waving of a weapon or other thing; as the flourish of a sword.