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noun Latin.
- he (or she) flourished: used to indicate the period during which a person flourished, especially when the exact birth and death dates are unknown. Abbreviation: fl., flor.
verb
- (he or she) flourished: used to indicate the period when a historical figure, whose birth and death dates are unknown, was most activeAbbreviation: fl ., flor .
used now mainly in sense of “period during which a historical person’s life work was done,” 1843, Latin, literally “he flourished,” third person singular perf. indicative of florere (see flourish (v.)). Usually in abbreviation fl.