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FLOR'IDA, a townfhip of the American States, m 
Orange county, New York, eight miles fouth of Goftien, 
*nd fifty north-weft of New York city; lately incorporated. 
FLOR'IDA CAPE, the fouthernmoft point of land of 
the peninfula of Eaft Florida. It is ioo miles north of 
the itl3nd of Cuba. Lat. 25. 20. N. Ion. 80. 20. W. 
FLOR'IDA GULF, the channel between the penin- 
fula of Florida and the Bahama ifiands, north of the illand 
Of Cuba j and through which the gulf-ftream finds a 
pafTage, and runs to the north-eaft along the American 
Coaft. 
FLOR'IDA KEYS, or Martyr Islands, a number 
of rocks and fand-banks, bounded weft by the gulf of 
Mexico, eaft by that of Florida. The great fand-bank 
extends from the peninfula of Eaft Florida inward, to 
the gulf of Mexico, in the form of a hook; its weft 
oint is divided from the bank called the Dry Tortugas, 
y Tortuga channel. 
FLORI'DITY, f Freftinefs of colour.—There is a 
fioridity in the face from the good digeftion of the red 
part of the blood. Floyer. 
FLOR'IDNESS,_/i Freftinefs of colour. Embellifh- 
ment; ambitious elegance.—Though a philofopher need 
not delight readers with his foridnefs, yet he may take 
care that he difguft them not by flatnefs. Boyle. 
FLORIF'EROUS, adj. [Jlorifer , Lat.] Produdfive of 
flowers. 
FLORIF'EROUSNESS,/. The quality of producing 
flowers. Scott. 
FLORIG'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat.j?<«, a flower; 
*nd gero, to carry.] Bearing flowers. Scott. 
FLOR'ILEGE, or Florile'gium, f. [from the Lat. 
Jlos, a flower; and lego, to gather.] Anthology, a treatife 
on flowers. 
FLOR'IMOND (de Remond), a French catholic con- 
troverfial writer in the fixteenth century, a native of 
Agen in Guienne, and became counfellor in the parlia¬ 
ment of Bourdeaux in 1570. In early life he was inclined 
to the principles of the Calvinifts ; but he renounced 
them in 1566, and from that time became a zealous writer 
in behalf of the tenets of the catholic church. He died 
in 1602, having publiftied a great variety of controverfial 
pieces, two of which are confidered to be works of much 
merit, and have undergone frequent impreflions. The 
firft is, A Treatife concerning Antichrift ; and the other, 
On the Origin of Herefies, 2 vcls. 4to. 
FLO'RIN,/. [French.] A coin firft made by the Flo¬ 
rentines. That of Germany is in value 2s. 4<d. that of 
Spain 4s. 4|d. that of Palermo and Sicily 2s. 6d. that of 
Holland 2s.—In the imperial chamber the proftors have 
half a jlorin taxed and allowed them for every fubftantial 
recefs. Ayliffe. 
FLO'RIN, a town of the ifland of Sardinia : eight 
miles fouth-eaft of Saflari. 
FLORIN'DA, a proper name of women.—A lady of 
this name is recorded on the page of hiftory, as having- 
been the innocent caufe of the cruel war between the 
Moors and Spaniards. She is noticed in the original copy 
of Don Quixote, under the difguifed name of Caba, which 
Smollet has tranflated Cava. She was the daughter of 
Julian count of Ceuta; and was raviflied and otherwife 
difhonourably treated by Roderic king of Spain. Her 
father, to revenge this injury, called the Moors or Sara¬ 
cens into Spain in the year 712. The event of this incur- 
fion is well known. The Moors denominated her Cava , 
i.e. a deflowered woman. 
FLORINIA'NI, or Floriani, a fe£t of heretics of 
the fecond century, denominated from its author Flori- 
nus, or Florianus, a prieft of the Roman church, depofed 
for his errors. Florinus had been a difciple of St. Poly¬ 
carp, along with Irenams. He alferted, that the things 
forbidden by God are not evil, but of his own appoint¬ 
ing. In which he followed the errors of Valentinus, and 
joined himfelf with the Carpocratians. They had alfo 
©ther names given them. Philaftrius fays, they were the 
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fame with the Carpophorians. He adds, that they were 
alfo called foldiers, mi/ites, quia de militaribus fuerunt. St. 
Irenaeus calls them Gnqflics ; St. Epiphanius, Phibionitcs ; 
and Theodore, Borborites, on account of the impurities of 
their lives. 
FLO'RIOT (Peter), an eminent French writer, born 
in the diocefe of Langres, in 1604. He diligently applied 
himfelf to the ftudy of the fcriptures, the fathers of the 
church, and moral theology, and obtained the benefice 
of Lais in 1647. He died in 1691, in the eighty-feventh 
year of his age. The moft celebrated of his works is a 
practical comment on the Lord’s Prayer, entitled La Mo - 
rale du Pater, &c. 4T0. firft publiftied at Rouen in 1762, 
and afterwards in various forms, at different places. The 
Lift edition of which we have feen any mention was print¬ 
ed at Rouen, in 1741, in 5 vols. nrao. under the title of 
Chriftian Morality, founded on the Inftrudlions which. 
Jefus Chrift has given us in the Lord’s Prayer. Another 
of his performances, which obtained a wide circulation, 
was entitled Moral Homilies on the Gofpels for all the 
Sundays in the Year, and for the principal Feftivals of 
our Saviour Jefus Chrift, 2 vols. 4to. He was alfo the 
author of A Treatife on Parochial Mafs, 8vo. which, 
hke the former pieces, derives its principal value from 
its ufeful moral tendency. 
FLO'RIS (Francis), a painter who has been termed 
the Raphael of Flanders, born at Antwerp in 1520. His 
family-name was Vriendt. He worked with his uncle, 
Claude Floris, a fculptor, till he was twenty years old, 
when a preference of painting led him to take inftruc- 
tions in that art from Lambert Lombard, of Liege. Un¬ 
der him he improved to fuch a degree, that upon his re¬ 
turn to Antwerp he opened a fchool with great fuccefs. 
A defire of perfedting his tafte induced him to travel 
into Italy, where he particularly attached himfelf to the 
remains of antiquity, and to the naked figures of Michael 
Angelo’s Laft Judgment, from which he caught a bold 
and fafcinating manner. On his return he furpafled all 
the mafters in the Low Countries, and rofe to high repu¬ 
tation ; to which his lively parts, agreeable converfation, 
acquaintance with literatute, and talents for poetry, con¬ 
tributed. He produced many fine works, in which he 
difplayed confummate knowledge of his art, with great 
lightnefs and facility of touch. Often, when he returned 
home in the evening fiuftied with wine, he would take 
his pallet and daftt out figures fo bold and fpirited, that 
he himfelf was furprized when he viewed them in the 
morning. His mode of living, however, at length re¬ 
duced him to a ftate of indigence and negledt; and he 
was ufed to fay to his children and workmen, “ My ex¬ 
ample is a bad one to follow, but it may teach you to 
be more fober and wife.” He died at Antwerp at the 
age of fifty, in 1570. Of his works fome of the principal 
are the Fall of Lucifer, in a chapel of the cathedral at 
Antwerp ; a Nativity, in another chapel; an Afliimptiou 
of the Virgin, at the grand altar ; a Laft Judgment, at 
Bruflels; and fome church-pieces, at Ghent. 
FLO'RIST,/. \_feurife, Fr.] A cultivator of flowers: 
And while they break 
On the charm’d eye, the exulting florijl marks 
With fecret pride the wonders of his hand. Thomfon. 
FLORS'HEIM, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
the Lower Rhine, and palatinate of the Rhine : five 
miles weft-north-weft of Worms. 
FLOR'ULENT, adj. [foris, Lat.] Flowery; bloffbming. 
FLOR'ULOUS, adj. Full of flowers. Not muck ufed. 
Bailey. 
FLO'RUS (L. Annaeus), a Latin hiftorian, fuppofed 
to have been of the fame Annaean family to which the 
Senecas and Lucan belonged. Very little, however, is 
known of his private hiftory. It is generally imagined 
that he was the fame Florus between whom and the em¬ 
peror Adrian a fkirmiih of fatirical verfes palfed, re. 
corded by Spartianus; but this is abfolutely conjectural. . 
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