Fruitify

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To produce fruit, seeds, or spores; to fruit. intransitive

    "The most scrupulous care is always taken that seeds furnished from this house shall be new and sound, certain to fruitify and always of the very best sorts."

  2. 2
    To come to fruition; to succeed or be fulfilled. intransitive

    "The work of the church in Boston has fruitified abundantly under the administration of Archbishop Williams; the Catholic population has grown and new churches have arisen to accommodate the growth."

  3. 3
    To bring to fruition; To fulfill or make a success of. transitive

    "It fruitifies not one year's work but all the work that has been done since the idea Of the American Gas Association was ever conceived."

  4. 4
    To make fruitful; to enrich.

    "America has given to the miner, means of exhaustless wealth ; to the rancher, grazing lands for the cattle upon a thousand hills ; to the farmer, fertile lands fruitified by the mouldering vegetation of countless ages; to the geologist, evidence of nature's marvels carved in the everlasting rocks; to the antiquarian, evidences of higher civilizations extinct before the name of Englishman was heard; to the botanist, hundreds of new plants and flowers; to the invalid, natural baths of medicated waters, healing as the pool of Siloam; to the artist, scenes of unequaled beauty, and to the grand and glorious Union, future wealth and strength, and power beyond the dreams of avarice or ambition to estimate."

Example

More examples

"The most scrupulous care is always taken that seeds furnished from this house shall be new and sound, certain to fruitify and always of the very best sorts."

Etymology

From fruit + -ify.

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