overflourish verb2 •(no longer used) To make excessive display or flourish of.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 . — 1697 •(no longer used) To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.the beauteous evil / Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil — 1601 formsoverflourished · overflourishing · overflourishes