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▪ I. flourishing, vbl. n.|ˈflʌrɪʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. flourish in various senses.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 881 Every ȝere at þe florysyngge When þe vynys shulde spryngge. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 15 Nouȝt sotilte of sentence, noþer faire florischynge of wordes. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 83 b, It must be digged before his florishing, or shooting out of his leaves. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Regratement de vieilles choses..the flourishing vp of old thinges. 1687T. W. tr. Hen. VIII's Assertio Septem Sacram. (1688) 8 These two Chapters..are..but the flourishings or first essays of Luther, who now begins to murther and destroy the Sacraments. 1717Berkeley Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 531 Before the flourishing of arts in Rome. 1865Trollope Belton Est. viii. 83 With some little flourishing at the commencement, Captain Aylmer made his speech.
2. In various concr. or quasi-concr. senses.
†a. Blossom, also fig.
b. A decoration, an embellishment; a flower-like design.
c. nonce-use. An ornamental covering.
a.a1300Cursor M. 10726 (Gött) Þis wand suld florisching bere. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 13 Haile, ȝhyng, benyng, fresche flurising! [Virgin Mary; but perh. ppl. a.].
b.c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 211 Hit nedeth noght yow for to tellen..Of this yates florisshinges, Ne of compasses, ne of kervinges. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Draperie, A flourishing with leaues, and flowers in wood, or stone, vsed especially on the heads of pillers. 1613T. Godwin Roman Antiq. (1658) 28 Bestudded with flourishings of purple silk. 1665Pepys Diary 26 Dec., Some fine writing-work and flourishing. 1847C. Winston Anc. Glass Paint. I. 125 Many attempts were made to strengthen the shadows..in representations of architecture with a flourishing of thin lines.
c.1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ii. xviii, Cover'd..with silken flourishing, Which as it oft decaies, renews again.
3. = fumishing. rare—1.
1726Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) s.v. Hart-hunting, He may observe his flourishings, which are in proportion to the Beast.
4. attrib. and Comb., as flourishing hand; flourishing thread (see quot.).
1713Steele Guardian No. 1 ⁋1 Mr. Airs, that excellent penman..instructs the youth of this nation to arrive at a flourishing hand. 1882Caulfield & Saward Dict. Needlework, Flourishing Thread, a flat, silky, linen thread specially adapted for mending Damask, Linen, [etc.].
▪ II. flourishing, ppl. a.|ˈflʌrɪʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That flourishes.
1. Budding or blossoming; hence, that grows vigorously or luxuriantly. Of a landscape: Verdant.
c1400Mandeville (1839) v. 54 The Gardyn is alweys grene and florisshing. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xiv. 18 All flesh shal fade awaye..like a florishinge leaf in a grene tre. 1647Cowley Mistress, Tree i, The flourishingst Tree in all the Park. 1783Cowper Rose ii, The buds it had left..On the flourishing bush where it grew. 1883R. Zimmermann in Athenæum 29 Dec. 847/2 Populous towns and flourishing landscapes.
2. Prosperous, thriving, conspicuous, eminent.
a1340Hampole Psalter ix. 20 Thorgh him be þai put in tyll synn in þi syght, þof þai seme florischand bifor men. 1535Stewart Chron. Scot. II. 156 Occa..Wyss into weir and fluresand in fame. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 179 This is a flourishing City. 1741Middleton Cicero I. i. 18 Hortensius, the most florishing young Orator at the bar. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 615 Belfast has become one of the greatest and most flourishing seats of industry in the British isles.
3. Vigorous; in the bloom of youth or health. Also in weakened or trivial use. † flourishing age, flourishing years: the prime of life.
1562Winȝet Cert. Tract. iii. Wks. 1888 I. 23 That maist flurissand part of my aige, spent in the teching of the grammar scule. 1564W. Bullein Dial. agst. Pest. To Rdr. (1888) 3 Some are preuented by death in their flourishyng yeres. a1568Coverdale Bk. Death iii. x. 296 The thirde [dieth] in his florishynge youth. 1600W. Vaughan Direct. Health (1633) 23 It [Meath] will cause one to haue a flourishing colour. 1737Whiston Josephus' Wars vi. ix. §2 They slew the aged.. but..those..in their flourishing age..they drove them together into the temple. 1855Geo. Eliot Let. 7 May (1954) II. 201, I am extremely well and jolly..I hope you are all equally flourishing. 1942N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air i. 9 He said, ‘How's Marcia?’.. I just said, ‘Oh, flourishing.’
4. Of writing: Ornamented with flourishes.
1859Sala Gas-light & D. iii. 37 As per flourishing gold letters on his door-jamb, he proposes to lend money.
5. Of style, etc.: Florid, highly embellished, grandiloquent, high sounding. Also of a writer: Addicted to floridness.
1538Leland Itin. I. p. xix, Men of Eloquence hath not enterprised to set them forthe yn a florisching style. 1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 252 An irrefragable Confutation of Beza, and our floorishingest New-writers. 1788F. Burney Diary June, He..spoke in flourishing terms of its contrast to former times.
6. Of persons and their actions: Boasting, swaggering, ostentatious.
1616Rich Cabinet 57 All sorts of people thought it the greatest glory to liue in the florishingest showe. 1688Wood Life 8 Dec. (O.H.S.) III. 287 A conceited flurishing coxcomb.
†7. Of a spear: Vibrating. Obs.
1388Wyclif Job xli. 20 He schal scorne a florischynge [1382 shakende] spere. |