impregnation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMPREGNA'TION, noun The act of fecundating and rendering fruitful; applied to animals or plants. 1. The communication of the particles or virtues of one thing to another. 2. That with which any thing is impregnated. 3. Saturation.
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