fecundate

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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 Bernhardt, Sarah

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 Eggleston, George Cary

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 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 Besant, Annie Wood

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 Cousin, Victor