Definition of Flourished

1. Verb. Simple past and past participle of '''flourish.''' ¹

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Definition of Flourished

1. flourish [v] - See also: flourish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flourished

flour bin
flour corn
flour gold
flour mill
flour treatment agent
flour treatment agents
flour weevil
floured
flourier
flouriest
flourily
flourine
flouriness
flouring
flourish
flourished (current term)
flourisher
flourishers
flourishes
flourishest
flourisheth
flourishing
flourishingly
flourishings
flourless
flourlike
flourodeoxyglucose
flours
floury
floury cornea

Literary usage of Flourished

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Instances are the great religious orders, the societies for the relief of poverty and sickness, the universities, and the guilds which arose and flourished ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"One of the foremost Greek lyric poets ; native of Mitylene ; flourished in the sixth ... A Greek rhetorician who flourished in the second century of the ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... may 1« observed in the writings of the theologians who flourished after the end of the apostolic age and before the origin of the Arian controversy. ..."

4. Publications by Scotland Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1854)
"They would serve very little indeed to illustrate the general history of literature during the age in which he flourished, and can be of use only to mark ..."

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