Definition of "floruit" []

• The period during which a person, school, or movement was most active or flourishing. (noun)

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• "Eusebius in his Chronicle placed his "floruit" in the eleventh year of Marcus Aurelius (171)."
• "There is good evidence to suggest that Numenius antedates Atticus, whose floruit is set around 176 (Eusebius, Chronicle, p. 207 Helm): Proclus in his 5th-c."
• "Jam inde non belli gloria quam humanitatis cultu inter florentissimas orbis Christiani gentes imprimis floruit."