floreat
Britishverb
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Invenit etiam aemulos infaelix nequitia—Ambitious men have not always been deterred by the unhappy fate of their predecessors, Quid si floreat vigeatque?
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan
Then, pitching on a note which brought the tune well within the compass of even Fenton's growling bass, he began the school songs, "Adsis musa canentibus Laeta voce canentibus Longos clara per annos Haileyburia floreat."
From Priscilla's Spies by Birmingham, George A.
We have specimens of his fondness for this nomenclative punning subscribed to his portrait: — "Floret adhue, et adhue florebit: floreat ultra Florius hae specie floridus,—optat amans."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
Pene haec millenos ecclesia floruit annos, Duret ad extremum nobilis usque diem, Daque deus longum, ut floreat hae sacra aedes Et celebret nomen plebs ibi sancta tuum.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Clifton, A. B.
For a similar metonymy, see EP II vii 26 'altaque quam multis floreat Hybla thymis'.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
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