English Dictionary

effloresce

/ˌɛfləˈɹɛs/

verb

(intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower. / (intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.

The flowers effloresce beautifully in the spring.

意味（1）

(intransitive, obsolete except figuratively) To burst into bloom; to flower.

The genus isis, or coral, in the order of zoophytes, or composite animals, efflorescing like vegetables, is an animal in the form of a plant, with a stony stem, jointed, and the joints longitudinally channelled, united by spongy or horny junctures, covered by a soft porous cellular flesh or bark, and having a mouth beset with oviparous polypes.

意味（2）

(intransitive, figuratively) Of something hidden: to come forth, to emerge; also, to reach full glory or power.

These [God's promises], implanted in the soul of David, effloresced in the Psalms to that luxuriance and fruitfulness which have made them the delight and nourishment of all succeeding ages of the church, …

意味（3）

Of a substance: to change from being crystalline to powdery by losing water of crystallization.

This is the very caſe with the Pyrites that conſiſt only of iron and ſulphur; yet ſome of them, as we ſaid before, do not effloreſce ſpontaneouſly and turn to Vitriol.

意味（4）

Of a salt: to seep through some material (bricks, concrete, earth, rock, etc.) in a dissolved state, and then crystallize on a surface in a powdery form.

The ſalts which effloreſce from old walls, are nitre more or leſs pure, quadrangular nitre, mineral alkali in abundance, more or leſs pure, and mixed with calcareous earth; …

意味（5）

Of the surface of a material: to become covered with a powdery salt (as described in sense 3.2).

In the country about Rome there is a very hard ſtone, which is hewn out of the quarry juſt like other ſtones for building: this ſtone yields a great deal of Alum. In order to extract it, the ſtones are calcined for twelve or fourteen hours; after which they are expoſed to the air in heaps, and carefully watered three or four times a day for forty days together. In that time they begin to effloreſce, and to throw out a reddiſh matter on their ſurface.