effloresce

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To burst into bloom; to flower.

   “Human societies have effloresced to levels of extreme complexity because their members have the intelligence and flexibility to play roles of virtually any degree of specification, and to switch them as the occasion demands.”

2. fiil Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.

   “These [God's promises], implanted in the soul of David, effloresced in the Psalms to that luxuriance and fruitfulness which have made them the delight and nourishment of all succeeding ages of the church, [...]”

3. fiil Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.

   “This is the very caſe with the Pyrites that conſiſt only of iron and ſulphur; yet ſome of them, as we ſaid before, do not effloreſce ſpontaneouſly and turn to Vitriol.”

4. fiil Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.

   “The ſalts which effloreſce from old walls, are nitre more or leſs pure, quadrangular nitre, mineral alkali in abundance, more or leſs pure, and mixed with calcareous earth; [...]”

5. fiil Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).

   “This ſtone is perpetually effloreſcing, and forming the ſalt called Sulphate of Iron: vulgarly, Copperas.”