fecundate

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

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

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

Some patients imagine themselves pregnant and pretend that they were fecundated secretly.

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

The fecundated females, on their part, become breeding machines whose activity is incessant.

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

She departed, rose high in the air, was fecundated, and returned.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

This observation proved that virgin queens engage in single combats; but we wished to discover whether those fecundated, and mothers, had the same animosity.

From New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

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

That these historic Resolutions contained the fecundating germs of the Civil War, is by the way.

From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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

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

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

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