fecundate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is the life into which the slime of the Keateses and Shelleys of former times has fecundated!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

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

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

It is a porous tufa adapted, presumably, for sheltering and fecundating vegetable spores.

From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

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

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

Constantly from the palace of the lord of the world, seated on the high hill of heaven, blow four winds, pour four streams, refreshing and fecundating the earth.

From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Daniel Garrison Brinton