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reflourish, v.|riːˈflʌrɪʃ|
[f. re- 5 a + flourish v., orig. after L. reflōrēscĕre.]
intr. To flourish anew. Chiefly fig. (Common in 17th c.)
a1340Hampole Psalter xxvii. 10 And my fleysse reflorist [L. refloruit]. 1544Leland N.Y. Gift in Itin. (1768) I. p. xxiii, The old Glory of your renowmid Britaine [shall be seen] to reflorisch thorough the Worlde. 1558T. Phaer æneid Gen. Sum. a ij b, A land where their Kyngdome should reflorishe. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 83 Cypresse: a tree destinated to the dead; in that once being cut it neuer reflourisheth. 1675T. Plume Life Hacket in Cent. Serm. p. i, Afterwards, when Christian religion reflourished, the Christian Church resumed these studies again. 1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 135 He saw the city reflourishing under the auspices of the emperor Hadrian. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 229 The love of flowers..reflourishes..in the autumn of our age.
†b. Const. with inf. (after the Vulgate). Obs.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) Phil. iv. 10, I rejoyced in our Lord excedingly, that once at the length you have reflorished to care for me [L. refloruistis pro me sentire]. 1613Day Dyall x. (1614) 266 Little have they Reflourished to care for them, to use a phrase of theirs.
Hence reˈflourishing vbl. n. and ppl. a. So reˈflourishment. rare—1.
1621H. Farley St. Paul's title-p., All such as beare good will to the reflourishing estate of the said Chvrch. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 230 Their resurrection, and refloureshing againe. 1657W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc ii. 238 The reflourishing Glory of that most excellent and Beneficent King Renatus. 1728Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead II. 108 The Wicked are no Objects of Hope nor of Reflourishing. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xciv. (1783) III. 191 The reflourishing fortunes of the benevolent Blewitt.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. §95. 535/2 The Welsh seeing these round proceedings in England, the peace and reflorishment whereof they feared, labored for reconciliation. |