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Flourish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. flur'ish.

3. The flourish of his sober youth.

4. Ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as a flourish of rhetoric; a flourish of wit.

5. He lards with flourishes his long harangue.

6. Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver; as the flourishes about a great letter.

7. A brandishing; the waving of a weapon or other thing; as the flourish of a sword.

Flourish [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. flur'ish. [Latin floresco, from floreo. The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, Latin ploro.]

2. To thrive; to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant. The beech and the maple flourish best in a deep, rich and moist loam.

3. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth or honor.

4. Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish and that by the means of their wickedness.

5. When all the workers of iniquity do flourish Psalms 92:7 .

6. To grow in grace and in good works; to abound in the consolations of religion.

7. The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree. Psalms 92:7 .

8. To be in a prosperous state; to grow or be augmented. We say agriculture flourishes, commerce flourishes, manufactures flourish

9. To use florid language; to make a display of figures and lofty expressions; to be copious and flowery.

10. They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.

11. To make bold strokes in writing; to make large and irregular lines; as, to flourish with the pen.

12. To move or play in bold and irregular figures.

13. Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking, flourished o're his head.

14. In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form; as, to flourish on an organ or violin.

15. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Flourish [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. flur'ish.

2. To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with any thing showy.

3. To spread out; to enlarge into figures.

4. To move in bold or irregular figures; to move in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish; as, to flourish a sword.

5. 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.

6. To adorn; to embellish.

7. To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke.

8. The day book and inventory book shall be flourished.

Flourish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

2. Decoration; ornament; beauty.

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 words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit.

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

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.

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

Flourish [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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.

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

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

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.

7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

Flourish [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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.

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

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

Flourished [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

flur'ished. Embellished; adorned with bold and irregular figures or lines; brandished.

Flourished [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flourisher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. flur'isher.

2. One who flourishes; one who thrives or prospers.

3. One who brandishes.

4. One who adorns with fanciful figures.

Flourisher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who flourishes.

Flourishes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flourishing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

or adjective flur'ishing. Thriving; prosperous; increasing; making a show.

Flourishing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Flourishingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

flur'ishingly. With flourishes; ostentatiously.

Flourishingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.

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26 KJV and 28 BSB verses contain “flourish” — showing the first 20. Show all 45 verses (searchable)

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

Job 8:7

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

Job 8:11

Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

Job 15:32

It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish.

Psalms 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

Psalms 52:8

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.

But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.

Psalms 72:7

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

May the righteous flourish in his days and prosperity abound, until the moon is no more.

Psalms 72:16

There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

May there be an abundance of grain in the land; may it sway atop the hills. May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and its people like the grass of the field.

Psalms 90:6

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalms 92:7

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

Psalms 92:12

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalms 92:13

Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

Psalms 92:14

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalms 128:3

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

Psalms 132:18

His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

Proverbs 11:28

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.

Proverbs 12:12

The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

The wicked desire the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

Proverbs 14:11

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish.

Proverbs 28:28

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, the righteous increase.

When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.