fecundate

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

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

No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pig­nuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.

From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

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

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 first requisite is suitable water for hatching eggs that have been artificially fecundated, and for the occupancy of fish of different ages, and for different species of fish.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

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

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

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

We look upon him as one of the few men of genius whom our age has produced, and there needs no better proof of it than his masculine faculty of fecundating other minds.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 by Various

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

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

From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

The supreme leaders in science, the men whose discoveries have been fecundating and fundamental, seem to be at least seven—Euclid, Archimedes, Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, Lavoisier, and Darwin.

From Inquiries and Opinions by Brander Matthews

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