Popular Names
FLORENCE Name
| Name: | FLORENCE |
| Gender: | Female |
| Origin/Usage: | Arthurian Legend, English, English, French, Latin |
| Meaning: | Blooming |
Florence E. King: "The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became "real" according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: "I swallow it, therefore it is.""