fructify

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FRUC'TIFY, verb transitive [Low Latin fructifico.] To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth. FRUC'TIFY, verb intransitive To bear fruit. [Unusual.]
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