fruitify

verb

Etymology: From fruit + -ify.

1. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores; to fruit.

   “The most scrupulous care is always taken that seeds furnished from this house shall be new and sound, certain to fruitify and always of the very best sorts.”

   “There this mycelium goes on growing in the plant as it grows, until the corn bursts out in ears then the fungus begins to fruitify, the spore-bearing cells burst and give rise to the familiar blackened ears.”

2. To come to fruition; to succeed or be fulfilled.

   “The work of the church in Boston has fruitified abundantly under the administration of Archbishop Williams; the Catholic population has grown and new churches have arisen to accommodate the growth.”

   “Later on, in the twentieth century women themselves took up their cause and their struggle fruitified when India's constitution enshrined in it complete equality of the sexes.”

3. To bring to fruition; To fulfill or make a success of.

   “It fruitifies not one year's work but all the work that has been done since the idea Of the American Gas Association was ever conceived.”

   “Professor Peter F. Drucker, the management maestro of America, has wisely propounded that "man, if he is anything, is an economic man," and as a corollary to it, he has inferred that any form of the Government "preserved to seek and achieve professedly more decent world order through the satisfaction of economic needs of its citizens" can better fruitify this aim by dint of efficient management.”

4. To make fruitful; to enrich.

   “America has given to the miner, means of exhaustless wealth ; to the rancher, grazing lands for the cattle upon a thousand hills ; to the farmer, fertile lands fruitified by the mouldering vegetation of countless ages; to the geologist, evidence of nature's marvels carved in the everlasting rocks; to the antiquarian, evidences of higher civilizations extinct before the name of Englishman was heard; to the botanist, hundreds of new plants and flowers; to the invalid, natural baths of medicated waters, healing as the pool of Siloam; to the artist, scenes of unequaled beauty, and to the grand and glorious Union, future wealth and strength, and power beyond the dreams of avarice or ambition to estimate.”

   “In this great University of Michigan, in its faculties and among its students are children of every state in the Union, teachers from Britain and from Europe, scholars from the Near East and from the Far East, and as from a fountain head the streams are turning again to vitalize and fruitify the world.”