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Definition of Fructifying
1. fructify [v] - See also: fructify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fructifying
Literary usage of Fructifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1878)
"It were indeed to be deplored, if the fructifying freedom of our day were to be
compromised by as bitter and powerful a proscription by science of one half ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"At last, in spite of bitter opposition, the fructifying principle of antisepsis
and asepsis established itself in our hospitals, forced for the most part by ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton, William Otter (1804)
"This heat is likewise in plants, as appears by their increasing, fructifying, &c.
though not so easily perceived. In all bodies it must have radical a ..."
4. A Synopsis of Popery, as it was and as it is by William Hogan (1847)
"the grain from fructifying and enlarging. Brownson takes with him, and appropriates
to himself, many plausible arguments from the works of eminent men, ..."
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