单词 | to flower off |
释义 | > as lemmasto flower off b. figurative. Also with out, into. †to flower off: (of reflexions) to arise spontaneously in the treatment of a subject. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] theec888 i-thee971 bloomc1175 flower?c1225 soundfula1300 fructifya1325 timea1325 to bear the bloom1330 flourisha1340 prosperc1350 thrive?a1366 blossom1377 cheve1377 burgeona1382 likec1400 upthrivec1440 avail1523 fadge1573 to bear a great, high or lofty sail1587 blow1610 to be (also stand) in state1638 fatten1638 sagaciate1832 to be going strong1855 the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [verb (intransitive)] > grow > blossom or flourish flower?c1225 throddena1642 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > advance, progress, or develop [verb (intransitive)] > develop, grow, or prosper flower1642 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > emerge or present itself to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225 astart1393 becomea1400 emerge1570 bubble1578 to flower off1644 steal1798 to gust up1813 to crop up1844 outcrop1856 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 251 Minflesch is iflured. & bicumen al neowe. c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 306 Your chere floureth, but hit wol not sede. 1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. O8 Whose drooping phansie never flowred out. 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 1 If you can accept of these few observations which have flowr'd off. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 34/1 The thorny and bitter aloe of dissension required less than a century to flower on the steps of your temple. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. ix. 106 The mediæval front of the cathedral, where the imagination of a Gothic architect had long ago flowered out indestructibly. 1865 M. C. Harris St. Philip's xxxii It seemed as if earth had suddenly flowered into a paradise. 1865 M. C. Harris St. Philip's xxxvi The evil in him had flowered out into luxurious growth. 1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams ii. i. 146 The germs of those capacities which..have flowered in the noblest and wisest of our race. < as lemmas |
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