Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make fertile; fertilize; impregnate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To fertilize; to fecundate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb rare, obsolete To make fertile; to
fertilize .
Etymologies
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From fertility, with change of suffix after debilitate.
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Examples
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Siritae autem, finitimi Sybaritis, non secus ac hi luxui ac deliciis dediti erant, ad quas ipsa locorum amoenitate et fertilitate, quam Archilochus adeo miratus est, tum etiam exemplo Sybaritarum foite inducti sunt.
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12 "Postea vero explorata insulæ fertilitate et indigenarum inertia, rupto fœdere, in ipsos, a quibus fuerant invitati arma verterunt." —
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£x hia numis apparet, Vulcanum in - qutd redolens, et typns spicarum, nota hac 'insula praedpuo bonore adfectum. insulae fertilitate.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. 1792
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