Flourish

Webster's Dictionary

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

(2): ( 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.

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

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

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

(6): ( v. i.) To boast; to vaunt; to brag.

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

(8): ( 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.

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

(10): ( v. t.) To develop; to make thrive; to expand.

(11): ( 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.

(12): ( n.) A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor.

(13): ( n.) Decoration; ornament; beauty.

(14): ( 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.

(15): ( n.) A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure.

(16): ( 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.

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

King James Dictionary

Flourish flur'ish. L. floresco, from floreo. The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, L. ploro.

1. 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. 2. To be prosperous to increase in wealth or honor.

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

When all the workers of iniquity do flourish.  Psalms 92 .

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

The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree.  Psalms 92 .

4. To be in a prosperous state to grow or be augmented. We say agriculture flourishes, commerce flourishes, manufactures flourish. 5. To use florid language to make a display of figures and lofty expressions to be copious and flowery.

They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.

6. To make bold strokes in writing to make large and irregular lines as, to flourish with the pen. 7. To move or play in bold and irregular figures.

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

8. In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form as, to flourish on an organ or violin. 9. To boast to vaunt to brag.

FLOURISH, flur'ish.

1. To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial to ornament with any thing showy. 2. To spread out to enlarge into figures. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. To adorn to embellish. 6. To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke.

The day book and inventory book shall be flourished.

FLOURISH, n. flur'ish.

1. Beauty showy splendor.

The flourish of his sober youth.

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

He lards with flourishes his long harangue.

3. Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver as the flourishes about a great letter. 4. A brandishing the waving of a weapon or other thing as the flourish of a sword.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

 Philippians 4:10

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

flur´ish ( פרח , pāraḥ , צוּץ , cūc  ; ἀναθάλλω , anathállō ): The translation of pāraḥ , "to break forth" ( Psalm 72:7;  Psalm 92:12 ,  Psalm 92:13;  Proverbs 14:11;  Isaiah 66:14;  Song of Solomon 6:11;  Song of Solomon 7:12; the Revised Version (British and American) "budded"); of cūc "to bloom" ( Psalm 72:16 ,  Psalm 90:6;  Psalm 92:7;  Psalm 103:15;  Psalm 132:18 ); ra‛ănān , "green," "fresh," is translated "flourishing" in  Psalm 92:14 , the Revised Version (British and American) "green," and ra‛ănan , Aramaic in  Daniel 4:4; nūbh , "to sprout" ( Zechariah 9:17 , the King James Version "cheerful").

In an interesting passage ( Ecclesiastes 12:5 the King James Version), the Hiphil future of nā'ac , meaning properly "to pierce or strike," hence, to slight or reject, is translated "flourish"; it is said of the old man "The almond tree shall flourish," the Revised Version (British and American) "blossom" (so Ewald, Delitzsch, etc.); nā'ac has nowhere else this meaning; it is frequently rendered "contemn;" "despise," etc. Other renderings are, "shall cause loathing" (Gesenius, Knobel, etc.), "shall be despised," i.e. the hoary head; "The almond tree shall shake off its flowers," the silvery hairs falling like the fading white flowers of the almond tree; by others it is taken to indicate "sleeplessness," the name of the almond tree ( shāḳēdh ) meaning the watcher or early riser (compare  Jeremiah 1:11 , "a rod of an almond-tree," literally, "a wakeful (or early) tree"), the almond being the first of the trees to wake from the sleep of winter. See Almond .

"Flourish" appears once only in the New Testament, in the King James Version, as translation of anathallō , "to put forth anew," or "to make put forth anew" ( Philippians 4:10 ): "Your care for me hath flourished again," the Revised Version (British and American) "Ye have revived your thought for me."