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fructify, v.|ˈfrʌktɪfaɪ|
Also 6 frutyfye.
[a. F. fructifier, ad. L. frūctificāre, f. frūctus fruit: see -fy.]
1. intr. To bear fruit, become fruitful.
a1325Prose Psalter li[i]. 8 Ich am in Godes hous as oliue fructifiand. 1340Ayenb. 234 Þet zed..fructefide of one half to þe þrittaȝte, of oþer half to zixtiaȝte. c1400Mandeville (1839) v. 50 Elles it [the Bawm] would not fructify. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 1065 Aarons ȝerde fructified without plantacionne. 1538Bale Thre Lawes 141 Hys wyfe shall encreace, hys land shall frutyfye. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 304 The tree of lyfe..doeth fructifie, or bring forth fruite twelue tymes in the yeare. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xv. (1845) 260 Those Soils wherein they will afterwards Flourish and Fructifie. 1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 7. 2/2 Saffron..needs no adventitious moisture to make it Fructify. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. III. xxvi. 84 Causing it [the perfect animal] to fructify and renew the species. 1874Cooke Fungi 13 Species of lichens which in many countries do not fructify.
fig.c1393Chaucer Scogan 48 Thenke on Tullius kindenesse, Minne thy frend, ther it may fructifye! c1422Hoccleve Learn to Die 17 Y shal teche thee Thyng þat shal to thy soule fructifie. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 422 b/1 So moche grewe and fructefyed the chylde in resplendour or lyghte of alle good vertues. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. iii. 24 And desyreth not to fructefye neyther to encrease with the goodes of the erthe. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. i. 96 It seems very improbable that Christianity should fructify there. 1847C. G. Addison Contracts ii. iii. §1 (1883) 591 This description of pledge..was constantly fructifying and paying off the debt. 1875Hamerton Intell. Life xi. iv. 420 Each has caused to fructify the talent which the Master gave.
2. trans. To make fruitful, cause to bear fruit; to fecundate, impregnate.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 66 To fructifie and increase the earth. 1611Beaum. & Fl. King & No K. ii. i, Let a man..fructify foreign countries with his blood. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon (1810) 4 The red marle hath this property to fructify the barrenest ground. a1711Ken Christophil Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 441 To fructify the Seed he sow'd. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 654 On the mucous surface of which..it [exhalation of yellow fever]..fructifies a like harvest of contagious matter. 1865W. Kay Crisis Hupfeldiana 6 Many a plant has been fructified by means of pollen..brought to it unwittingly by an insect.
fig.1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 204 It fructifies our knowledge by making it practical. 1769Burke Late St. Nat. Wks. 1842 I. 85 Floods of treasure would..have fructified an exhausted exchequer. 1860Smiles Self-Help xi. 282 The facility with which young people are made to acquire knowledge..fills, but does not fructify the mind.
Hence ˈfructified ppl. a., in senses of the vb.; also † Her. = fructed; ˈfructifying vbl. n., the action of the vb.; ˈfructifying ppl. a. Also ˈfructifier, one who or that which fructifies.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i pr. i. 3 (Camb. MS.) Affeccyons whiche þat ne ben nothing fructefiynge nor profytable. 1532Fructyfyed [see fructive]. 1594Plat Jewell-ho. i. 3 The vegetatiue & fructifying Salt of Nature. 1638Wilkins New World i. (1684) 128 It is not necessary there should be the same means of Growth and Fructifying in both these Worlds. 1649Hammond Serm. Chr. Oblig. Peace 10 The growths and fructifyings of his Graces. 1681T. Jordan London's Joy 5 An Almond-tree Leav'd, Blossom'd, and Fructified. 1708Motteux Rabelais v. Prol. (1737) p. lvii, These merry and fructifying..Books. 1816Scott Old Mort. viii, An able and fructifying preacher. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 261 A fructifying of the corrupt seed, of which death is the germination. 1835Fraser's Mag. XII. 39 Think you..that one of our great financiers I mean the Thomsonian fructifier..would be scared from his presidency by apprehension of a general bankruptcy? 1879B. Taylor Stud. Germ. Lit. 263 His ideas still retain their fructifying character. |