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† ˈfructuate, v. Obs.—1
[f. L. frūctu-s fruit + -ate3.]
intr. To bear fruit; to fructify.
1663Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (ed. 2) 5 Those ill qualities which fructuated in him [Cromwell] at this age.
Hence ˈfructuated ppl. a. Her. = fructed. Also fructuˈation, the action of bearing fruit; † concr. a crop of fruit (in quot. fig.).
1782T. Pownall Antiquity 60 Knowing..with what superabundant population the first fructuation of an advancing society is loaded. 1809J. Home in Naval Chron. XXIV. 193 An oak tree vert..fructuated or. 1885Syd. Soc. Lex., Fructuation, the development or production of fruit. |