fecundate
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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 Besant, Annie Wood
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
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 Cousin, Victor
Whilst the bird is probing the flower, the pollen of the stamens is rubbed in to the lower part of its head, and thus carried from one flower to fecundate another.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Belt, Thomas
No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pignuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
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