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Flourish
Flourish Flour"ish, v. t.
1. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural
or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to
embellish. [Obs.] --Fenton.
2. 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. [Obs.]
Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth
flourish the deceit. --Shak.
3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in
circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to
brandish.
And flourishes his blade in spite of me. --Shak.
4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. [Obs.]
Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle,
perhaps may be flourished into large works. --Bacon.
FlourishFlourish Flour"ish, n.; pl. Flourishes.
1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [Archaic]
The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never
had the like. --Howell.
2. Decoration; ornament; beauty.
The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of
naked truth. --Crashaw.
3. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or
vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite
admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious
copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures;
show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue.
--Dryden.
4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely
decorative figure.
The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible
curiously printed. --Boyle.
5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of
triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical
composition; a cal; a fanfare.
A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! --Shak.
6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as,
the flourish of a sword.
Meaning of Flourish from wikipedia
- Look up
flourish in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Flourish may
refer to:
Flourish (film), a 2006
comedic thriller Flourish (fanfare), a ceremonial...
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Flourishing, or
human flourishing, is the
complete goodness of
humans in a
developmental life-span, that
somehow includes positive psychological functioning...
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Flourish is a 2006
American film written,
produced and
directed by
Kevin Palys and
starring Jennifer Morrison,
Jesse Spencer,
Leighton Meester, and Ian...
- Four
ruffles and
flourishes pla****
before "Hail Columbia" U.S.
military band
playing ruffles and
flourishes being before a
performance of "Hail Columbia"...
- A
flourish of
approval or krul ("curl") is a
mostly Dutch symbol used for
grading schoolwork or to show that one has seen and
agreed with a paragraph....
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Flourishing is the
fourth extended play by
South Korean singer Chungha. It was
released by MNH
Entertainment and
distributed by
Stone Music Entertainment...
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Cardistry is the
performance art of card
flourishing.
Unlike card magic,
cardistry is
meant to be
visually impressive and
appear very hard to execute...
- B with
flourish (Ꞗ, ꞗ) is the
Unicode name for the
third letter of the
Middle Vietnamese alphabet,
sorted between B and C. The B with
flourish has a rounded...
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Human flourishing may
refer to: Eudaimonia,
human flourishing in
Ancient Gr****
philosophy Flourishing, a
broader concept,
belonging to both philosophy...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
fanfare (or
fanfarade or
flourish) is a
short musical flourish which is
typically pla**** by
trumpets (including fanfare...
