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fruc·ti·fy

Audio Help [fruhk-tuh-fahy, frook-, frook-] Pronunciation Key verb, -fied, -fy·ing.

–verb (used without object)

1.	to bear fruit; become fruitful: With careful tending the plant will fructify.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to make fruitful or productive; fertilize: warm spring rains fructifying the earth.

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME fructifien < OF fructifier < L frūctificāre. See fructi-, -fy

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fruc·ti·fy Audio Help   (frŭk'tə-fī', frŏŏk'-) Pronunciation Key
v.   fruc·ti·fied, fruc·ti·fy·ing, fruc·ti·fies

v.   tr.
To make fruitful or productive.

v.   intr.
To bear fruit.

[Middle English fructifien, to bear fruit, from Old French fructifier, from Latin frūctificāre : frūctus, fruit; see fruit + -ficāre, -fy.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
fructify

c.1325, from O.Fr. fructifier, from L.L. fructificare "bear fruit," from L. fructus (see fruit) + root of facere "make" (see factitious).

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fructify
verb
1.	become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified"
2.	make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified"
3.	bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify"

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Fructify

Fruc"ti*fy\ (fr[u^]k"t[i^]*f[imac]), v. i. [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + -ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.] To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." --Beveridge.

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Fructify

Fruc"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fructified; p. pr. & vb. n. Fructifying.] To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

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