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单词 foetific
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foetificadj.

Forms: 1700s foetifick, 1800s foetific.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin fētificus.
Etymology: < classical Latin fētificus reproductive, genital < fētus fetus n. + -ficus -fic suffix. Compare earlier foetification n.With the forms compare the note at fetus n.
Obsolete. rare.
That fertilizes or makes fruitful.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Foetifick, making fruitful.
1847 R. Willis tr. W. Harvey Wks. 359 Whence Aristotle calls the milt of the male fish..‘the genital and fœtific fluid [L. liquorem genitalem, & foetificantem]’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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