efflorescev.
/ɛflɒˈrɛs/ 1. † a. To bloom, burst forth into flowers. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > be a flowering plant [verb (intransitive)] > flower or blossom
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blowc1000
flower13..
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breakc1325
lancec1330
flourishc1386
to break up?a1500
knopa1584
effloresce1775
outbreak1870
1775 E. Barry Observ. Wines Ancients 25 They will..begin to effloresce and shoot out into Flowers.
1807 in C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon (1808) xvii. 432 Fungi germinate, effloresce, disseminate, and die, during the evolutions of the seasons.
b. To burst forth into something resembling a flower.
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1826 J. M. Good Bk. Nature II. i. 20 Zoophytes, or Plant-animals, so denominated from their efflorescing like plants.
c. To burst forth as a plant when flowering; const. into.
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1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 144 Efflorescing into two or three coecal ampullæ.
2. Chemistry.
a. Of a crystalline substance: To change over the surface, or throughout, to ‘flowers’ or fine powder, owing to the loss of the water of crystallization on exposure to the air.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > undergo chemical reactions or processes [verb (intransitive)] > undergo chemical reactions or processes (named) > undergo efflorescence
effloresce1788
1788 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. II. 305 Some salts..readily effloresce, and continue to fall in pieces, till the whole becomes a fine white powder.
1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of Dyeing I. i. iii. i. 214 It effloresces, that is, it parts with its water of crystallization in the air, and assumes the appearance of flour.
1860 H. W. Reveley in Jrnl. Soc. Arts VIII. 323/2 Tufo, a volcanic production, never effloresces.
b. Of a salt: To come (in solution) to the surface (of the ground, etc.) and there crystallize. Also, To form a crust (by capillary attraction and evaporation) on the sides of a vessel containing a solution.
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1820 T. Cromwell Excurs. Ireland vii. 61 The vitriolic particles..are seen to effloresce in various places.
1868 J. D. Dana Min. (1880) 636 Mirabilite..effloresces with other salts on the limestone below the Genesee Falls.
c. Of the ground, a wall, etc.: To become covered with a powdery crust of saline particles left by evaporation from a solution which has been drawn to the surface by capillary attraction.
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18.. Dana in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) The walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of lime.
3. figurative.
a. (after sense 1) To ‘blossom out’, break out into brilliant display.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] > burst forth in display
effloresce1864
1864 Sat. Rev. 31 Dec. 812/1 A disposition..to effloresce into extremely tall talk.
1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Apr. 10 The man who effloresces in later life into the full-blown social science orator.
b. (after sense 2c) Of hidden agencies, etc.: To come to the surface, become manifest.
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society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed
to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE
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kitheOE
unfoldc1350
disclosea1513
burst1542
to break up1584
to take vent1611
vent1622
bleed1645
emerge1664
to get (also have) vent1668
to get or take wind1668
to stand (appear) confessed1708
eclat1736
perspire1748
transpire1748
to come out1751
develop1805
unroll1807
spunk1808
effloresce1834
to come to the front1871
to show up1879
out1894
evolve1920
to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964
1834 J. Foster Ess. Evils Pop. Ignorance Knowledge..has seemed at last beginning to effloresce through the surface of the ground.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iii. i. 163 The secret courses of civic business..effervescing and efflorescing,..as a concrete Phenomenon.
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