fruitify

English

Etymology

fruit +‎ -ify

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.
   • 1880, Frank I. Jervis, The Great West, page 116:

     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.

   • 1897, Naturalists' Journal and Naturalists' Guide - Volume 6, page 139:

     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.

   • 1954, Jesse Harlan Johnson, An Introduction to the Study of Rock Building Algae and Algal Limestones:

     Along the coast of France, Lithothamnion lenormandi growing in dark grottos is sterile while in the same grotto, some other species will be able to fruitify while others are sterile.

2. (intransitive) To come to fruition; to succeed or be fulfilled.
   • 1892, Daniel P. Toomey, Thomas Charles Quinn, Massachusetts of Today:

     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.

   • 1991, Padma Ramachandran, V. Sankaran Nair, Minorities and Secularism, a Symposium, page 52:

     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.

   • 1996, India. Parliament. House of the People, Lok Sabha Debates, page 305:

     Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, today suitable jobs are not available to the educated youth. An engineer is engaged as a lawyer, a lawyer is working as a teacher. Their training has not fruitified.

3. (transitive) To bring to fruition; To fulfill or make a success of.
   • 1920, American Gas Journal - Volume 113, page 399:

     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.

   • 2006, Subhash Ranade, A Text Book Of Professional Communication, →ISBN, page 525:

     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.

   • 2017, Haridasan T.M., A Journey through the Jeevitha Nauka, →ISBN:

     He fruitified his vision with the establishment of Indian Institute of Science (Tata Institute as was known in the local circles).

   • 2017, Sukhdev Singh, The Highest Meaning of Life, →ISBN:

     There has been a general principle of achievements in this universe that greatness awaits only the consistency of positivity who can continue his onward journey even through frustrations to fruitify the proverb that one is great only if he can rise again after every fall and who can always remain awake and active for the attainment of its goal whether or not he received recognition or applause.

4. To make fruitful; to enrich.
   • 1880, Frank I. Jervis, The Great West, page 61:

     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.

   • 1912, The Chinese Students' Monthly - Volume 8, page 447:

     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.

   • 1921, The Contemporary Review - Volume 125, page 775:

     First chalky Wey, for rav'nous pikes renown'd, Rolls through the meads and fruitifies the ground: His milky waves enrich the thirsty soil, And joyous crops reward the mower's toil.

Synonyms

• fruiten