effloresce
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Two decades later the image would effloresce in the story/novella “Cousins”:
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2015
But eventually the virus predominates in the blood and the primitive cells effloresce into cancer.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the other hand, the mineral, or fossil alkali, is apt to lose its water in a dry atmosphere, and then it is said to effloresce.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
He does not tell us in this parable how the character which will effloresce in blossoms and set in fruits of goodness is produced.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
In oil, verdigris is permanent with respect to light and air, but moisture and an impure atmosphere change its colour, and cause it to effloresce or rise to the surface through the oil.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
The written-out trills of the 28th Variation effloresced with a mild gleam, and the fughetta of the 10th hit the ear with a tonal wall of sound.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
Since his marriage, he has effloresced in Washington society.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sometimes the manners of the British have effloresced in scolding at the word as ill-chosen—ill-chosen, that is, to express some meaning that it was rather designed to exclude.
From The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey by Delton Loring Geyer
Compelled communism is not the repetition of that oneness of sympathy which effloresced in the bright flower of this common possession of individual goods.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
Remember, but for these loppings of affliction you might have effloresced into the rank luxuriant growth of mere external profession.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
Has the slow re- absorption of this gas, it may be asked, given to the lime in the cells of the lava, that peculiar fibrous structure, like that of an efflorescing salt?
From Volcanic Islands by Charles Darwin
This had the double disadvantage of rendering the specimen cured by its aid almost dripping with humidity in damp weather, and efflorescing with the double salts around the eyes and mouth in dry weather.
The efflorescing matter is composed of carbonate of soda, chloride of sodium, and biborate of soda.
From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
Before leaving the valley, he observed a hillock glistening white: it appears from its salt, bitter taste, to have been some kind of nitrate efflorescing from the ground.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
These may subsequently be covered with drifting sands and capillary action may cause the borates to work up through the sands, becoming mixed with them and efflorescing at the surface.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
