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effloresce

[ef-luh-res] / ˌɛf ləˈrɛs /


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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

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

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

They will effloresce into manifold shapes of beauty and fruitfulness, of which the Prophet signalises three.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

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

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

What the Ingredients Are of Soapine and Pearline.—They consist of partly effloresced sal soda mixed with half its weight of soda ash.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

And the gladness which is wholesome and blessed, and is 'joy in the Lord,' will manifest itself by efflorescing into all holiness and all loftiness and largeness of obedience.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Alexander Maclaren

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.

From Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy. by Montagu Browne

Carbonate of soda should be avoided in connection with sodium silicate as the property of efflorescing on the surface of the finished cake after a short time will prove detrimental.

From Soap-Making Manual A Practical Handbook on the Raw Materials, Their Manipulation, Analysis and Control in the Modern Soap Plant. by E. G. Thomssen

And although the waters are healed, there still remain the obstinate marshes with the white crystals efflorescing on their surface, and bringing salt and barrenness.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

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




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