fecundate

Every human being has a moment when his heart is easily touched, when the tears of grief will flow; and those tears may fecundate a generous thought which might lead to repentance.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

V. make productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative†, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify†; teem, multiply; produce &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

May, the month dear to poets, is frequently but an uninterrupted succession of showers to fecundate the earth; its symbol, an array of outspread umbrellas in our streets.

From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine

And it is an ascertained fact, that wheat will not fecundate at all in a temperature which does not exceed 45°, accompanied with a gloomy atmosphere.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

The sun is the agent of the generative power of the sky, and his beams fecundate the earth, so that from her all life is produced.

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant

The queen bee is not impregnated of herself, but is fecundated by copulation with the male.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

The primitive lineaments of organization may be traced in the egg, even before it is fecundated.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

This having been done three times, the eggs will be thoroughly fecundated, and are ready to be deposited in the nests for hatching.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

Moreover, as yet no trace has been discovered of the female organs which are specially fecundated by the spermatia.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

At once father, mother, and son, he fecundated, conceived, produced, and was.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Edgar Saltus

We look upon him as one of the few men of genius whom our age has produced, and there needs no better proof of it than his masculine faculty of fecundating other minds.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various

Other flowers of the classes of monœcia and diœcia, and polygamia discharge the fecundating farina, which, floating in the air, is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler

Pollen, pol′en, n. the fertilising powder contained in the anthers of flowers: the male or fecundating element in flowers.—v.t. to cover with pollen.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Other flowers of the classes of monecia and diecia, and polygamia, discharge the fecundating farina, which floating in the air is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

Visions crossed his mind, born in the soft warm air of these fecundating winds, of this strange yet peaceful scene.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough