fructify Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Fruc"ti*fy intransitive verb
Etymology
F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.
Definitions
  1. To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.
Fruc"ti*fy transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Fructified ; present participle & verbal noun Fructifying
Definitions
  1. To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

Webster 1913