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1570 T. Wilson in tr. Demosthenes 3 Orations Pref. sig. *.iv^v I had rather follow his veyne, the whych was to speake simply and plainly to the commoon people vnderstanding, than to ouerflouryshe wyth superfluous speach.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 62 As they are likely to over flourish their own Case, so their Flattery is hardest to be discover'd.

1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. vi. 90 I cannot think, that the fondest Imagination can over-flourish, or even Paint to the Life, the Happiness of those who never check Nature.

1851 E. S. Wortley On Approaching Close of Great Exhib. 42 There a cushion, thick o'erflourished with rich broideries.

1876 C. Wells Joseph & his Brethren i. vi. 91 I thought to leave my image on the earth, Fairly o'erflourish'd in my goodly boy.

1592 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. (new ed.) xix. 302 They that worship..God,..dwelling in Paradise alike ouerflorishing green.

1861 R. W. Dixon Christ's Company & Other Poems 127 To feel The heart freeze harder, while o'erflourisheth The life of sense..This is the death indeed.

1996 Pharmacy Today (Nexis) Mar. 26 If this fungus over flourishes, dandruff could be the result of the scalp's reaction to it.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 362 Vertue is beauty, but the beauteous euill Are empty trunkes, ore-flourish'd by the deuill. View more context for this quotation

1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 114 A wither'd staff o'erflourish'd with green leaves.

a1892 Ld. Tennyson Poems II 25, in Wks. (1907–8) Like an oaken stock in winter woods, O'erflourished with the hoary clematis.