"overflourish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1697, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects:",
          "text": "Men, like falle Glasses, generally represent their Complexion better than Nature has made it. And as they are likely to overflourish their own Case, ſo their Flattery is hardest to be discover'd .",
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        "(obsolete) To make excessive display or flourish of."
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          "text": "the beauteous evil / Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil",
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        "To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over."
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        "(obsolete) To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over."
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