fecundate

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

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

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 Thomas Belt

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

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

The second treatment is necessary to kill the few parasites which sometimes escape at the first treatment, either in the egg stage or as fecundated females.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

How is the extremely complex human body with its various physical characteristics built up from the nucleus of a fecundated cell, the ovum?

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley

The ancient Germans worshiped a virgin goddess under the the name of Hertha, or Ostara, who was fecundated by the active spirit, i. e., the "Holy Spirit."

From Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning by T. W. Doane

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

Other flowers of the classes of monœcia and diœcia, and polygamia discharge the fecundating farina, which, floating in the air, is carried to the stigma of the female flowers, and that at considerable distances.

From Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin by Samuel Butler

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

From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

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

Athos was a great seigneur compared with such nobles as the king improvised by touching with his yellow fecundating scepter the dry trunks of the heraldic trees of the province.

From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas père

In a lateral chamber of the temple, on the ceiling, is a most striking mystical design, representing the firmament and the sun fecundating the land of Egypt.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington