Floruit

Quick meaning: Floruit is a verb meaning The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.

Meaning

The time period during which a person, group, culture, etc. is at its peak.

More Meanings

1. (defective, rare except abbreviated) lived, used in biographies to indicate a time period during which a person is known to have been alive, when dates of birth and/or death are not known.

Example Sentences

Mīrā (Bai). Floruit 16th century. Rajasthan's most famous female saint and poetess of Kṛṣṇa bhakti.

Marius Mercator must have shared the vigour of Alcimus, for he floruit in 218 according to Mr. Miller , while he at any rate existed in 418.

J. Joyce (floruit 1850) In 1926 Svevo wrote a letter to James Joyce in Paris inquiring if he were related to the J. Joyce who in 1850 had had printed and published by Lloyd Austriaco in Trieste a book[...]

Though Aristotle claimed that a human being reaches his intellectual peak at age forty-nine (Rhetoric 1390b9), chronologists reckon a person's flowering—his floruit—at about age forty. The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult. Sometimes, when a birth is not known, a floruit can be estimated on the basis of what is known about an individual's career.

Word Forms

• floruits

Synonyms for floruit

Depending on context, synonyms include flowering.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heyday, boom, apex, apotheosis, peak, highday.

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