flourish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To thrive or grow well.

   “The barley flourished in the warm weather.”

2. fiil To prosper or fare well.

   “The town flourished with the coming of the railway.”

3. fiil To be in a period of greatest influence.

   “His writing flourished before the war.”

4. fiil To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

   “But all that I ſhall ſay in this vvhole Argument, vvill be but like Bottomes of Thred, cloſe vvound vp, vvhich vvith a good Needle (perhaps) may be flouriſhed into large VVorkes.”

5. fiil To make bold, sweeping movements with.

   “They flourished the banner as they stormed the palace.”

6. fiil To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.

   “Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head.”

7. fiil To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions.

   “They dilate […] and flourish long upon little incidents.”

8. fiil To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.
9. fiil To adorn with beautiful figures or rhetoric; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

   “With shadowy verdure flourish'd high, A sudden youth the groves enjoy.”

10. fiil To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

    “Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?”

11. fiil To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
12. fiil To brandish (a weapon).
13. fiil To be known to have been alive at a particular time or in a particular period, where one's birth and death dates are not known; to have been active during a specified period; floruit.

    “John Smith (flourished 1425-1432) was...”

14. isim A dramatic gesture such as the waving of a flag.

    “With many flourishes of the captured banner, they marched down the avenue.”

15. isim An ornamentation.

    “His signature ended with a flourish.”

16. isim A ceremonious passage such as a fanfare.

    “The trumpets blew a flourish as they entered the church.”

17. isim A decorative embellishment on a building.