brandish

verb

1. (transitive)To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating anger, threat or skill.

   “He brandished his sword at the pirates.”

   “Hvng be yͤ heauens vvith black, yield day to night; / Comets importing change of Times and States, / Brandiſh your cryſtall Treſſes in the Skie, / And vvith them ſcourge the bad reuolting Stars, / That haue conſented vnto Henries Death: / King Henry the Fift, too famous to liue long, / England ne're loſt a King of ſo much vvorth.”

   “the quivering lance which he brandished bright”

   “Back, he spurred like a madman, shouting a curse to the sky, / With the white road smoking behind him, and his rapier brandished high! / Blood-red were his spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat; […]”

2. (transitive)To bear something with ostentatious show.

   “to brandish syllogisms”

   “Long, however, the young ſpark did not remain, before, giving it [his penis] two or three ſhakes, by way of brandiſhing it, he threw himſelf upon her, […]”

   “It sets the stage for cutting corners in our principles just so we can brandish a perceived badge of stature.”

noun

1. The act of flourishing or waving.