fecundate
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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
No. Defy the monsters, prod the phoenix, bury pignuts, come forward magical, fecundate freedom, build, levy songs.
From Voices from the Past by Bartlett, Paul Alexander
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
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 Roget, Peter Mark
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
The Lusatian observers, and M. Hattorf in particular, thought the queen was fecundated by herself, without concourse with the males.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
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
Moreover, there are women who never menstruate and who, in spite of this, not only regularly discharge ovules but may be fecundated and become pregnant.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste
The queen bee is not impregnated of herself, but is fecundated by copulation with the male.
From New observations on the natural history of bees by Huber, François
This having been done three times, the eggs will be thoroughly fecundated, and are ready to be deposited in the nests for hatching.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
Blessed fecundating suggestion, that was the earliest loophole!
From The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne by Le Gallienne, Richard
Other flowers of the classes of monecia and diecia, 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 Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
For the fecundating nuclei are the very spark-essence of the blood.
From Fantasia of the Unconscious by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
That these historic Resolutions contained the fecundating germs of the Civil War, is by the way.
From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
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 Mackey, Albert G.
