fecundate
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And then, if the religious sentiment is weakened, are there not other sentiments that can make the heart of man beat, and fecundate genius?
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin
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
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
No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pignuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
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
The Lusatian observers, and M. Hattorf in particular, thought the queen was fecundated by herself, without concourse with the males.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
So the idea of ‘the relative’ has been fecundated in modern times by the influence of the sciences of observation.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Only fecundated females feed on blood, and must be fertilized after each batch of eggs.
From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Rennie Wilbur Doane
How is the extremely complex human body with its various physical characteristics built up from the nucleus of a fecundated cell, the ovum?
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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
There is a fecundating power in them which generates thought, and it is in the moral nature that this force is most apparent.
From Beethoven by George Alexander Fischer
Grew, and then Vaillant had just demonstrated the sexual system and described the fecundating of plants; Linnaeus invents botanical nomenclature and the first complete classifications; the Jussieus discover the subordination of characteristics and natural classification.
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
Myriads of these eggs are accumulated in ponds and rivers; yet in this mass the fecundating principle solely selects and impregnates those that naturally claim its vivifying powers.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Turpin* published a memoir on the organ, by which the fecundating fluid is introduced into the vegetable ovulum.
From Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Phillip Parker King
They usually consist of a filament and an anther, the anther being the essential part in which the pollen, or fecundating dust, is formed.
From The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin
