fecundating

Iconographically, the pearl has been interpreted as the result of lightning penetrating the oyster, hence it was regarded as the union of fire and water, both fecundating forces, and so denotes birth and rebirth; fertility.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Suspended in a seashell at the back of the altar, an ostrich egg evokes a complex metaphor: the scale of the egg (with regard to the shell) is pearlescent, embedding the pantheistic iconography of a fecundating force in the historia of the Immaculate Conception.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

This I did by depriving the flowers of their natural husbands, and fecundating them by others, — a very delicate operation, you will say.

New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure.

Les Miserables 2008

In some countries only the fecundating pollen is scattered over the female flower, and this doubtless must have been

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

[2697] Not as being born of it, but as fecundating it, and so producing

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

He has his human nature from the virgin Mary through the operation of the Holy Spirit, who came upon her and overshadowed her by fecundating her seed, so that from it the promised Messiah should, in a supernatural manner, be born.

The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

The condition of sterility in man may arise either from a condition of the secretion which deprives it of its fecundating powers or it may spring from a malformation which prevents it reaching the point where fecundation takes place.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis

The condition of sterility in man may arise either from a condition of the secretion which deprives it of its fecundating powers or it may spring from a malformation which prevents it reaching the point where fecundation takes place.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

We look upon him as one of the few men of genius whom our age has produced, and there needs no better proof of it than his masculine faculty of fecundating other minds.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various