flourish

[Flour·ish]

A flourish is an extra touch a trumpet's "ta ta da!" announcing a king's entrance, a fancy carving atop an otherwise utilitarian pillar, a wave of a flag or a cheerleader's pompom.

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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

Noun
(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare"

Noun
the act of waving

Noun
a display of ornamental speech or language

Noun
a showy gesture; "she entered with a great flourish"

Noun
an ornamental embellishment in writing

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Verb
grow stronger; "The economy was booming"

Verb
move or swing back and forth; "She waved her gun"

Verb
gain in wealth

v. i.
To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

v. i.
To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.

v. i.
To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.

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

v. i.
To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures.

v. i.
To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.

v. i.
To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

v. t.
To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish.

v. t.
To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

n.
A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

n.
Decoration; ornament; beauty.

n.
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.

n.
A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

n.
A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare.

n.
The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword.

Flourish

Flour"ish , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flourished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Flourishing.] [OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF. flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and -ish.] 1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil.
2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production.
When all the workers of iniquity do flourish.
Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness.
We say Of those that held their heads above the crowd, They flourished then or then.
3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery.
They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents.
4. 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.
5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. 6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude.
Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?
7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope.

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.
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.
4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. [Obs.]
Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works.

Flourish

Flour"ish , n.; pl. Flourishes . 1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [Archaic]
The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like.
2. Decoration; ornament; beauty.
The flourish of his sober youth Was the pride of naked truth.
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 word and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue.
4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.
The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed.
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!
6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the fluorish of a sword.

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish.

A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

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Usage Examples

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

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Other Usage Examples

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.