fecundate
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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
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
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
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
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
If the fecundated ovum is blocked or held in the Fallopian tube, the embryo grows where the ovum stops, and we have a case of Ectopic Gestation.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
The manner in which the egg when fecundated, either in the mother's body or after being laid, continues its development, varies enormously in different species.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
The object of this is, no doubt, to prepare the mucous membrane of the womb for the fixation of the fecundated egg which will become grafted on its surface.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
It was a fortunate idea, that she left the hive to be fecundated, and your method of ascertaining the fact was extremely judicious and well adapted to the object in view.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber
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
Heaven, as the fecundating principle, was male, and the source of fire; the earth, as the fecundated, was female, and the source of humidity.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
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
Poll′en-tube, the tube by which the fecundating element is conveyed to the ovule.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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
