fecundate
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His mind had one notable quality in common with Emerson's—the capacity to fecundate every other mind with which it came into close contact.
From Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
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
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
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 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
An egg fecundated and fixed in this way may keep its position and grow during the first weeks of pregnancy, by the aid of villosities covering its envelope which penetrate the wall of the womb.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
Male, influence of, on the fecundated female, i. 397-406; supposed influence of, on offspring, ii.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
In the first chapter we have spoken of the changes undergone by the fecundated ovule till it becomes the embryo and then the infant.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
If the ovum produced is not fecundated, it gradually shrivels up, and passes off through the uterus and the vagina.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
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
The pistil is much longer than the stamens, hence the flower-stalks have their elegant bend, that the stigma may hang downwards to receive the fecundating dust of the anthers.
From The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin
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
It is a porous tufa adapted, presumably, for sheltering and fecundating vegetable spores.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
But that half is excellent, keen, jolly, temperate; and because of that temperance—the most stimulating and fecundating of qualities—the humour of it has set the literature of a hemisphere to the tune of mirth.
From The Rhythm of Life by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
It was one of the modifications of sun worship, and was a symbol of the fecundating power of that luminary.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
