florare

florare [cf. Jan.] 1 to produce flowers, (fig.) to give rise to some glorious adornment. ~o, -as, quod non est in usu, sed componitur defloro, -as Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 227; res miranda nimis mulier, miracula florat / pre cunctis D. Bec. 1974; to blume, ~are, florescere CathA. 2 (p. ppl. ~atus) embellished or decorated w. floral designs, ‘flowered’ (cf. OF floré). b (w. vinum) scented; cf. herbatus, rosatus. 1245 in patena in limbis ~ata sculpitur ymago Invent. S. Paul. 465; est littera prima partita de rubeo et azorio ~ata de viridi Ib. 498; 1415 capa totaliter de auro, cum rosis rubeis et nigris ~ata, cum orphreis enbroudata nobiliter cum imaginibus (Test.) Foed. IX 273; 1581 lawne ‥ florat’ cum aur’ venic’ [=Misc. LChamb. 35 p. 248: lawne florished with venice gold] Ac. LChamb. 72 f. 14v.  b 1236 vina ~ata et rosata que ‥ specialiter ad opus regis faciant vindemiari Cl 271; 1242 Willelmo Arnaldi de Teys lxviij s. pro uno dolio vini ~ati et uno dolio vini Wasconie rosati Liberate 16 m. 12. 3 (mus.) to flourish, break. V. et. florere 6. duo puncta in eodem sono, sive fuerint in concordantia sive non, pro longa ~ata ponuntur Mens. & Disc. (Anon. IV) 87; due note de quibus prima erit longa quatuor temporum et ~ata, alia vero nota ex duobus temporibus fiet et dulciter in gutture duplicata Tunst. 252.