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Definition of Fructifies
1. fructify [v] - See also: fructify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fructifies
Literary usage of Fructifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"... where she sees secret things, rectifies what has been deranged in human bodies,
fructifies young and tender things, . . . and where she aids and cures . ..."
2. European Civilization: Protestantism and Catholicity Compared by Jaime Luciano Balmes, C. J. Hanford, Robert Kershaw (1859)
"To the fact, that Europe, for many centuries, has had within its bosom a powerful
principle which preserves, propagates, and fructifies the truth ; and it ..."
3. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations: A Comparative by Zelia Nuttall (1901)
"... the place where she sees secret things, rectifies what lias been deranged in
human bodies, fructifies young and tender things, . . . and where she aids ..."
4. Reply to Rev. Dr. Woods' "Lecture on Swedenborgianism ;": Delivered in the by George Bush, William Benjamin Hayden, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Richard Kenner Crallé, Catherine Crowe, Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner, John Clowes, Massachusetts New-Church Union, Swedenborg Foundation (1847)
"... however, that seed remains with man in his mind, as in its ground, and in time
produces its germ, and fructifies it, if man, by the seeds of life, ..."
5. Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilization by Jaime Luciano Balmes (1851)
"To the fact, that Europe, for many centuries, has had within its bosom a powerful
principle which preserves, propagates, and fructifies the truth ; and it ..."
6. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1857)
"Mustard ie an annual plant ; it springe from the seed and fructifies in a few
... In June, while tho grass and crops are yet small, before it fructifies. ..."
7. The Megalithic Culture of Indonesia by William James Perry (1918)
"In the east monsoon Upu-lero descends into the banyan tree and fructifies Upu-nusu.
Formerly at this time the men and women of the islands had promiscuous ..."
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