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Definition of Fertilise
1. Verb. Make fertile or productive. "The course fertilized her imagination"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Fecundation, Fertilizer
2. Verb. Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to. "They fertilise the trees"; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
Category relationships: Agriculture, Farming, Husbandry
Generic synonyms: Enrich
Specialized synonyms: Nitrify, Dung, Topdress
Derivative terms: Fertilization, Fertilizer
3. Verb. Introduce semen into (a female).
Specialized synonyms: Stratify, Bang Up, Impregnate, Knock Up, Prang Up, Impregnate, Cross-fertilise, Cross-fertilize, Cross-pollinate, Pollenate, Pollinate
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Fecundation, Fertilization, Insemination, Semen
Definition of Fertilise
1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of fertilize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fertilise
Literary usage of Fertilise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"... to fortify my soul, to elevate, extend, enlarge, and fertilise my ideas in a
society of men, whose minds penetrated mine with warmth and with light. ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... Till gathering force, they more and more expand, And with new virtue fertilise
the land. ... fertilise ..."
3. L'Amerique Protestants: Notes Et Observations D'un Voyageur by William Rey (1857)
"L'amour n'est compris par vous que comme un torrent à cascades, un désordre
méridional et païen, et non comme un sentiment harmonieux qui fertilise sans ..."
4. The Journal of Education for Ontario by Adolphus Egerton Ryerson, John George Hodgins, Adam Crooks, Ontario Dept. of Education (1870)
"Then up, and form your ranks, the hireling foe withstand ; March on—his craven
blood must fertilise the land. Then tremble, tyrant—traitors all— On you ..."
5. My summer in a garden by Charles Dudley Warner (1871)
"It is much pleasanter and easier to fertilise with a pen, as the agricultural
writers do, than with a fork. And this leads me to say, that, in carrying on a ..."
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