Floruit ( / ˈ f l ɔːr u . ɪ t / ; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor. ; from Latin for " flourished ") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished.
4-505: William Webbe ( fl. 1568–1591) was an English critic and translator. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge , and was a tutor for distinguished families, including the two sons of Edward Sulyard of Flemyngs, Essex , and later the children of Henry Grey of Pirgo , also in Essex. Webbe wrote a Discourse of English Poetrie (1586), dedicated to Sulyard, in which he discusses prosody and reviews English poetry up to his own day. He argued that
8-492: Is prepended to the 1591 edition of Wilmot's play Tragedie of Tancred and Gismund . The letter, praising Wilmot for having decided to publish the tragedy, acts as a prefacing endorsement of the play. Floruit Latin : flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb flōreō , flōrēre "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun flōs , flōris , "flower". Broadly,
12-449: The dearth of good English poetry since Chaucer 's day was not due to lack of poetic ability, or to the poverty of the language, but to the want of a proper system of prosody. He decried rhyming verse, showed enthusiasm for Spenser 's The Shepheardes Calender , and urged the adoption of hexameters and sapphics for English verse He also translated Virgil 's first two Eclogues . A letter by Webbe to Robert Wilmot ( fl. 1568–1608)
16-495: The term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204 and 1229, as well as a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)", even though Jones
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