fruitify

Verb

fruitify (third-person singular simple present fruitifies, present participle fruitifying, simple past and past participle fruitified)

1. (intransitive) 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.1880, Frank I. Jervis, The Great West, page 116
   • 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.1897, Naturalists' Journal and Naturalists' Guide - Volume 6, page 139
2. (intransitive) 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.1892, Daniel P. Toomey, Thomas Charles Quinn, Massachusetts of Today
   • 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.1991, Padma Ramachandran, V. Sankaran Nair, Minorities and Secularism, a Symposium, page 52
3. (transitive) 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.1920, American Gas Journal - Volume 113, page 399
   • 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...2006, Subhash Ranade, A Text Book Of Professional Communication, →ISBN, page 525
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...1880, Frank I. Jervis, The Great West, page 61
   • 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...1912, The Chinese Students' Monthly - Volume 8, page 447