fecundate

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

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

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

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

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

This is met with chiefly in the ants, in which each female is generally fecundated successively by several males.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

The vesicle which acts as heart and stomach serves also as the reproductive cavity, but how or by what means it is fecundated would be difficult to determine.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock

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

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

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

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

Not only did this emblem represent fertility, or the fecundating energies of Nature, but with the power to create were combined or correlated all the mental qualities and attributes of the two sexes.

From The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble

He thinks that in some of the manuscripts, as the Codex Borgia, it is represented by the rabbit fecundating the frog.

From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Daniel Garrison Brinton