Lexic.us

Definition of Florid

1. Adjective. Elaborately or excessively ornamented. "The senator's florid speech"

2. Adjective. Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life. "A fresh and sanguine complexion"

Definition of Florid

1. a. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery.

Definition of Florid

1. Adjective. Having a rosy or pale red colour; ruddy. ¹

2. Adjective. Elaborately ornate; flowery. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: of a disorder, especially mental) In a blatant, vivid, or highly disorganized state. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Florid

1. ruddy [adj] : FLORIDLY [adv] - See also: ruddy

Medical Definition of Florid

1. 1. Covered with flowers; abounding in flowers; flowery. "Fruit from a pleasant and florid tree." (Jer. Taylor) 2. Bright in colour; flushed with red; of a lively reddish colour; as, a florid countenance. 3. Embellished with flowers of rhetoric; enriched to excess with figures; excessively ornate; as, a florid style; florid eloquence. 4. Flowery; ornamental; running in rapid melodic figures, divisions, or passages, as in variations; full of fioriture or little ornamentations. Origin: L. Floridus, fr. Flos, floris, flower. See Flower. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Florid

floriation floriations floribunda floribundas florican floricane floricanes floricans floricmous floricomous

floricultural floriculture floricultures floriculturist floriculturists florid (current term) florid oral papillomatosis florid osseous dysplasia florida bean florida selaginella

florider florides floridest floridities floridity floridly floridness floridnesses

Literary usage of Florid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Counterpoint and Fugue by Luigi Cherubini, Mary Cowden Clarke, Josiah Pittman (1854)
"florid counterpoint in one part. Example of the 2nd order of combined florid ... Example of florid counterpoint in two parts. FOUR-PART COUNTERPOINT. ..."

2. A General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical by Ludlow, Miss, Daniel Huntington (1851)
"florid style.—Elizabethan style.—Architecture in Scotland. and subdivision of compartments, known as the florid or perpendicular style, of which the superb ..."

3. A Manual of Simple, Double, Triple and Quadruple Counterpoint by Salomon Jadassohn (1897)
"florid Counterpoint. (Two notes against one.) § 4. In simple counterpoint the parts can only progress independently with respect to melody; in florid ..."

4. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1786)
"Of the other kind of ornamented Jlyle^ the gay and florid*—Antient authors, ... I call the gay or florid, of which the ornaments are quite different from, ..."

5. Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected edited by Vicesimus Knox (1797)
"ong the 'Profe writers, by the florid, he means, ai the name indicates, a Style ornamented, flowing, ..."

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